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Definitions of dehiscent
  1. adjective
    (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • draba any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique
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