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seedpod

n. (context botany English) A pouch-like form on a plant which encloses the seeds.

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seedpod

n. a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant [syn: pod]

Usage examples of "seedpod".

Bunches of dried roses, statice, bullrushes and seedpods of poppies crowned the tops of the units in profusion.

Nezzie had produced a small ember from another fireplace, and with it set fire to some fluff from the seedpods of fireweed collected for tinder.

One by one, the males approached them, bearing seedpods and spicewood, dried foliage, and much else the dark unicorn could not identify.

He said some other ghost-orchid fancier must have heard that Savilla had seedpods and had stolen them.

It takes about eight months for orchid seeds to germinate, and eight months after her seedpods were stolen Savilla received a letter from the curious man.

It was a trillium nearly as tall as Haramis herself, bare-rooted, with spreading glossy leaves, and seedpods, and a myriad of night-black blossoms each as large as an outstretched hand.

Then he got a bunch of fresh, green seedpods which had all their spikes and were not open.

After yelling some more and still getting no answer, he walked to the grove and began looking for fruit or seedpods, preferably the latter since they had more protein.

The gleaming dorsal spines of living fish -- the silvery seedpods of underwater plants -- all contrasted with the more mundane green of chlorophyllic leaves and fronds.

He didn't remember these trees with yellow seedpods among their thorns, but the whorls of lighter soil indicated the Jeeps' air cushions had swept the rocks here.

She'd seen one once, like the seedpod of some plant that expels its seeds with a wrenching destruction of the once-protective covering.

Dayvine had overgrown the pumphouse door, its brilliant red flowers and delicate seedpods draped elegantly from the roof across the opening.

Tall grasses of browned seedheads vied against fireweed with sprung and fluffy seedpods.

But the inner self that had been so intent on stringing beads and feathers and wool and cows’ hair and seedpods, that had been so sure where to lace this string to that, and how to hang the tassels—that self had not imagined how she would look in anything but the old drab workshirts and skirts and bonnets of earlier years.