a. Bot. [ad. mod.L. ūnicapsulār-is (whence F. unicapsulaire): see UNI- and CAPSULAR a.] Of a pericarp: Having a single capsule. Of a plant: Characterized by a pericarp of this kind.
Also Zool. = MONOCYTTARIAN a. (Cent. Dict., 1891).
1720. P. Blair, Bot. Ess., ii. 52. Therefore Papaver is only an Unicapsular Plant.
1760. Lee, Botany, I. xv. 38. In respect to external Division, the Pericarpium is either … Unicapsular,… as in Lychnis [etc.].
1793. Martyn, Lang. Bot., s.v., A Unicapsular pericarp.
