circumscissile

American  

[sur-kuhm-sis-il] / ˌsɜr kəmˈsɪs ɪl /

adjective

Botany.

1. opening along a transverse circular line, as a seed vessel.

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circumscissile British  

/ ˌsɜːkəmˈsɪsaɪl /

adjective

1. (of the dry dehiscent fruits of certain plants) opening completely by a transverse split

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Etymology

Origin of circumscissile

First recorded in 1825–35; circum- + scissile

Example Sentences

Page 58 condition of the circumsissle Changed to circumscissile.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Distinguished from Ophiotheca by the flattened sporangium with a regular circumscissile dehiscence.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

The pileus is hemispherical to convex, and expanded, smooth, whitish, with a tinge of straw color, and covered with torn, thin floccose patches of the upper half of the circumscissile volva.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Sporangia regular and stipitate, rarely sessile; the wall a thin membrane, minutely granulose, colored as the spores and capillitium, the upper part soon torn away in a somewhat circumscissile manner, and early disappearing.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Capsule 3–5-celled with axile placentæ, loculicidal or circumscissile, many-seeded.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa