indehiscent

American  

[in-di-his-uhnt] / ˌɪn dɪˈhɪs ənt /

adjective

Botany, Mycology.

1. not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.

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indehiscent British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈhɪsənt /

adjective

1. (of fruits) not dehiscent; not opening to release seeds

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Other Word Forms

• indehiscence noun

Etymology

Origin of indehiscent

First recorded in 1825–35; in- ³ + dehiscent ( def. )

Example Sentences

C. Virgínica, L. Slender, usually tall; leaves lanceolate to linear; dorsal cell indehiscent, scabrous.—Damp rich woods and banks, southern N. Y. to Fla., west to Mich., Iowa, and Mo. 2.

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

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; Ð called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Capsules immersed in the thallus or sessile upon it, indehiscent.

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

Pod membranaceous, 1-seeded, indehiscent, enclosed in the persistent calyx.—Mostly herbs, more or less glandular-dotted, with minute stipules; the small flowers in terminal spikes or heads.

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 hard and nut-like, 3–4-ribbed or angled, indehiscent or nearly so, usually becoming 1-celled and 1–4-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