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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
  • 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
  • andreaea brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits
  • bacca an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
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