silicle

A short silique usually having a length less than twice its width.

In botany, in the mustard family, a short, silique—that is, a pod or seed-vessel the length of which does not more than twice, or possibly thrice, surpass the breadth, as in the shepherd’s-purse, Lunaria, candytuft, etc. See silique, pouch, 4, and fig. 4 under pod. Also silicula, silicule.

A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See silique.

A short silique, such as the seed capsule (fruit) of shepherd’s purse.

short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants