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adjective(of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seedsOpposite:
Definition that contains dehiscent
- key a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- pod a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- capsule a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- samara a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- seedpod a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- weeping tree broom small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods
- schizocarp a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
- achene small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
- genus piscidia genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
- white-topped aster herb having corymbose white-rayed flowers with scaly bracts and silky indehiscent fruits