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- Capsule - n. - a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
- Capsule - n. - A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
- Capsule - n. - a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- Capsule - n. - A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
- Capsule - n. - A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.
- Capsule - n. - A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.
- Capsule - n. - A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- Moss - n. - A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
- Cernuous - a. - Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.
- Glomerulus - n. - The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
- Struma - n. - A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
- Polyspermous - a. - Containing many seeds; as, a polyspermous capsule or berry.
- Peristome - n. - The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.
- Pterotic - a. - Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.
- Spermatophore - n. - A capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. They are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. In cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.
- Circumscissile - a. - Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
- Unilocular - a. - Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.
- Pedicel - n. - A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
- Valve - n. - One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
- Operculum - n. - The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.
- Pod - n. - A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
- Seta - n. - Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
- Gonotheca - n. - A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
- Synechia - n. - A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
- Dehiscent - a. - Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
- Tooth - n. - one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
- Unicapsular - - Having but one capsule to each flower.
- Gymnospermous - n. - Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.
- Cardamom - n. - The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.
- Cyst - n. - A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.
- Ascococcus - n. - A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.
- Ischiocapsular - a. - Of or pertaining to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint; as, the ischiocapsular ligament.