dehiscent
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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
A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticæ, etc.
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
Tryma, trī′ma, n. a drupe with fleshy exocarp, dehiscent.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Sporangia subglobose, irregular, sessile, without a hypothallus; the wall thin, marked with branching veins, irregularly dehiscent.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
The Capsule, the dry and dehiscent fruit of any compound pistil.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
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