dehiscent
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- dehiscence noun
Example Sentences
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And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Neque enim ante dehiscent Adtonitœ magna ora domus.—VIRGIL.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Fruit a dry, dehiscent, conical-pointed, 5-celled capsule with 10 to 30 seeds, ripe in the autumn.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
Pistils 1–8, forming dry dehiscent pods in fruit.—Perennials, with 2–3-ternately-divided leaves, the leaflets cut-serrate, and white flowers in elongated wand-like racemes.
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
Fruit.—Dry; consisting of three dehiscent nutlets; sometimes crested.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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