indehiscent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of indehiscent
First recorded in 1825–35; in- 3 + dehiscent ( def. )
Example Sentences
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A small, dry and hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit.
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
Sarcobasis, s�r-kob′a-sis, n. a fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Pod flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the two cells indehiscent and falling away at maturity from the partition as closed nutlets, strongly wrinkled or tuberculate, 1 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
Fruit twin, separating into 2 indehiscent 1-seeded carpels.
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
Fruit separating into 2 or 3 closed and indehiscent carpels; otherwise as n. 5.
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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