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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.

A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material. Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a projectile. -- Blank cartrige, a cartridge without a projectile, -- Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial…

ring; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

clining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

A columnlike axis in the capsule of mosses.

A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exit in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.

e of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Composed pf two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.

nch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome. Fringe tree (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow- white flowers, with long pendulous petals.

or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

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.