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A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

aturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.

r lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.

n; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

s leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.