Definition of Siliquous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Siliquous

1. Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules. Origin: NL. Siliquosus: cf. F. Siliqueux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Siliquous

siliculose
silicum
silinaite
siling
silipide
siliqua
siliqua olivae
siliquaceous
siliquae
siliquas
silique
siliques
siliquiform
siliquosa
siliquose
siliquous (current term)
siliqyiform
silk
silk-cotton tree
silk-screen printing
silk cotton
silk gland
silk hat
silk oak
silk screen print
silk stocking
silk tree
silk vine
silk wood

Literary usage of Siliquous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles & Practice of Medicine by John Charles Peters, Frederick Greenwood Snelling (1863)
"siliquous small-pox of Friend, in which the pustule resembles a small hollow bladder, but contains no fluid; 7. The horn small-pox, which is by much the ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"SILIQUA, (si.l'-le-kw|) ns A carat, of which six make a scruple ; the seed-ves- cl, husk, cod, or shell of such plants as are of the pulse kind. siliquous ..."

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