indehiscent

[in-di-his-uhnt]

adjective

Botany, Mycology.

1. not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.

indehiscent

/ ˌɪndɪˈhɪsənt /

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• indehiscence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of indehiscent¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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Samara, sā-mar′a, or sam′-, n. a dry indehiscent, usually one-sided fruit, with a wing, as in the ash, elm, and maple—the last a double samara.—adjs.

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The achene is a dry, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit, the pericarp of which is closely applied to the seed, but separable from it.

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Of dry fruits many are indehiscent; and these are variously arranged to be transported by animals.

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