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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
- 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