silicle

1. 1.

   short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants

   Broadersilique

Other forms of silicle

plural

silicles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about silicle

What does silicle mean?

silicle means "short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants".

How many syllables are in silicle?

silicle has 3 syllables and divides as si-li-cle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.