dehisce
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of dehisce
1650–60; < Latin dēhiscere to gape, part, equivalent to dē- de- + hiscere to gape, yawn ( hi ( āre ) to yawn + -scere inchoative suffix)
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Owing to the rotation of the filaments, the anthers, when mature, dehisce towards the circumference of the flower in one form of Faramea, and towards the centre in the other form.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
When mature they dehisce by a small opening, and when broken open will disclose the olive or greenish-yellow capillitium.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The ova and the spermatozoa dehisce into the body cavity and pass to the exterior through the nephridia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
In some Leguminosae, as Arachis, Cathartocarpus Fistula and the tamarind, the fruit must be considered a legume, although it does not dehisce.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
It has been noted with respect to the nectar of the fuchsia that it is most abundant when the anthers are about to dehisce, and absent in the unexpanded flower.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
I suspect also that the pistil goes on growing for some time after the anthers have dehisced.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
Mr. Blackley observed that the ripe anthers of rye did not dehisce whilst kept under a bell-glass in a damp atmosphere, whilst other anthers exposed to the same temperature in the open air dehisced freely.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
They protruded two very large much-branched panicles; but the florets never opened, though these included fully developed stigmas, and stamens supported on long filaments with large anthers that dehisced properly.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
The follicle is a dry unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Fruit dehiscing and exposing one of the three seeds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
Lachnobolus incarnatus, A. & S. Sporangia globose or ellipsoidal, substipitate, closely crowded and seated on a common hypothallus; the wall thin and delicate, pellucid, minutely granulose, dehiscing irregularly.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
From the young to the matured dehiscing plant.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants.
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
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