septicidal
adjective
(of a plant's capsule) bursting open lengthwise along a septum.
septicidally
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a word derived from
septicidal.
Example Sentences
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The fruit is generally a membranous or leathery capsule, splitting septicidally into two valves; the seeds are small and numerous, and contain a small embryo in a copious endosperm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Capsule elliptical, flattened contrary to the narrow partition, 2-celled, septicidally 2-valved.
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
