dehiscent
Britishadjective
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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
Fruit 5-celled dehiscent pods, with many pendulous, winged seeds.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel of a compound pistil, 122.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Pod ovoid, coriaceous, wrinkled, longer than the calyx, scarcely dehiscent, 1–2-seeded.—Annual or biennial herbs, fragrant in drying, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, leaflets toothed.
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 Asa Gray
Sporangium at maturity dehiscent in a regular circumscissile manner, the apex falling away as a lid, leaving behind the more persistent cup-shaped portion.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
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