- a rounded seed vessel or pod of a plant, as of flax or cotton.
- German novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1972.
- the fruit of such plants as flax and cotton, consisting of a rounded capsule containing the seeds
- Heinrich (ˈhaɪnrɪç) (Theodor). 1917–85, German novelist and short-story writer; his novels include Group Portrait with Lady (1971): Nobel prize for literature 1972
