Pyxidium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pyxidium is a noun meaning (botany) A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
Meaning
(botany) A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
Example Sentences
A fruit of this kind is sometimes termed a pyxidium; that is, a little chest.
Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence.
The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.
The capsule of gold−beater's skin, in which the grubs of the Cione are enclosed, divides itself, at the moment of liberation, into two hemispheres "of a regularity so perfect that they recall exactly the bursting of the pyxidium when the seed is distributed".
Word Forms
- pyxidia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include seedbox, seedpod, pycnidiospore, pycnidium, peridiole, cypsela.
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