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
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)
Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel of a compound pistil, 122.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Pod ovate or oblong-linear, compressed, often curved, clothed with rough glands or short prickles, scarcely dehiscent, few-seeded.
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
Capsule oblong or ovate, truncate, dehiscent at the summit.
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
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