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Pyxidium vs Pyxidate - What's the difference?

pyxidium | pyxidate |

As a noun pyxidium

is (botany) a seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.

As an adjective pyxidate is

having a pyxidium.

pyxidium

English

Noun

(pyxidia)
  • (botany) A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
  • * 1979 , Organization for Flora Neotropica, New York Botanical Garden, Flora Neotropica: Issue 21 , Part 1, p. 221:
    • Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence.
  • * 1924 , Samuel James Record, Clayton Dissinger Mell, Timbers of Tropical America , p. 467:
    • The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.
  • * 1913 , Georges Victor Legros, Fabre: Poet of Science , p. 176:
    • 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".
  • * 1836 , Asa Gray, Elements of Botany , p. 221:
    • A fruit of this kind is sometimes termed a pyxidium ; that is, a little chest.

    pyxidate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a pyxidium.