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capsule

In botany, a dry, usually many-seeded fruit formed from an ovary composed of two or more fused carpels, which splits open to release the seeds. The same term is used for the spore-containing structure of mosses and liverworts; this is borne at the top of a long stalk or seta.

Capsules burst open (dehisce) in various ways, including lengthwise, by a transverse lid – for example, scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis – or by a number of pores, either towards the top of the capsule, as in the poppy Papaver, or near the base, as in certain species of bellflower Campanula.



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I teach you the friend in whom the world standeth complete, a capsule of the good,--the creating friend, who hath always a complete world to bestow.
So it is with hybrids, for their degree of fertility is often found to differ greatly in the several individuals raised from seed out of the same capsule and exposed to exactly the same conditions.
But these animals did not take to flight so rapidly but what the electric capsule could stop their course.
 
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