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
Pistils 1–8, forming dry dehiscent pods in fruit.—Perennials, with 2–3-ternately-divided leaves, the leaflets cut-serrate, and white flowers in elongated wand-like racemes.
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
Fruit.—Dry; consisting of three dehiscent nutlets; sometimes crested.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Pod dehiscent when ripe by two valves, tipped with a flat or angled beak White Mustard, Brassica alba. 23b.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
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