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adjective(of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seedsOpposite:
Definition that contains indehiscent
- key a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- samara a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- simple fruit an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
- 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
- genus piscidia genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
- stone fruit fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
- drupe fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
- key fruit a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- achenial pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit
- 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