dehiscent

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And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The Capsule, the dry and dehiscent fruit of any compound pistil.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Sporangium at maturity dehiscent in a regular circumscissile manner, the apex falling away as a lid, leaving behind the more persistent cup-shaped portion.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Fruit.—Dry; consisting of three dehiscent nutlets; sometimes crested.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Anther-cells bilocellate by a vertical partition and longitudinally dehiscent.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa