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seed pod a carpel or pistil enclosing the seeds of a plant, esp a flowering plant |
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The seed pods to which you refer are female catkins that turn brown as they mature and then shatter, explaining the litter in your yard. Comparisons with bits of driftwood and the hulls of abandoned boats have been rapidly exhausted since its opening in June, but the muscular ribbed and contoured form (made flesh by structural gurus Adams Kara Taylor) does have something disturbingly organic about it, like a giant seed pod or insect cocoon plopped artfully on the seafront. A: In the case of honeylocust, the seed pods fall and may not disentegrate until late winter or early spring. |
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