"pyxidium" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Organization for Flora Neotropica, New York Botanical Garden, Flora Neotropica: Issue 21, Part 1, p. 221",
          "text": "Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence."
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          "ref": "1924, Samuel James Record, Clayton Dissinger Mell, Timbers of Tropical America, page 467:",
          "text": "The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.",
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          "ref": "1913, Georges Victor Legros, Fabre: Poet of Science, page 176:",
          "text": "The capsule of gold−beater's skin, in which the grubs of the Cione are enclosed, divides itself, at the moment of liberation, into two hemispheres \"of a regularity so perfect that they recall exactly the bursting of the pyxidium when the seed is distributed\".",
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        "(botany) A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off."
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