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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
- 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