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Definitions of dehisce
  1. verb
    burst or split open
    "flowers dehisce when they release pollen"
Definition that contains dehisce
  • 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
  • genus andreaea brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits
  • piscidia genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
  • drupe fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
  • 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
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