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

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circumscissile

Sporangia regular ovoid to cylindric, stipitate; the wall a thin delicate membrane, circumscissile or torn away near the base, the upper portion evanescent, the lower part persistent, small and cup-shaped.

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

Nothing similar appears in the gray specimens of the present form, although the dehiscence is quite as certainly circumscissile.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The peridium shows a tendency, often, to circumscissile dehiscence, and persists long after the contents have been dissipated, in this condition suggesting the name applied by Batsch, vesparium, wasp-nest.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Cell contents uniform, dense, cell division accompanied by circumscissile debiscence of the parent cell, producing rings on the filaments.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

Sporangia globose, the base depressed, gregarious: the wall thick, yellow within and distinctly reticulately impressed by the spores, the outer surface reddish-brown or yellow-brown in color, dehiscent in a circumscissile manner.

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