Bot. [L. ceratium = siliqua, a. Gr. κεράτιον carob-bean, lit. little horn, dim. of κέρας horn: the application is modern.]
A long slender one-celled many-seeded superior fruit, shaped like a siliqua, but having placenta alternate with the lobes of the stigma.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., 402. Ceratium. A siliquiform capsule, such as that of Corydalis, Cleome, &c.
