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

Sporangia subglobose, irregular, sessile, without a hypothallus; the wall thin, marked with branching veins, irregularly dehiscent.

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

Tryma, trī′ma, n. a drupe with fleshy exocarp, dehiscent.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Pod ovate or oblong-linear, compressed, often curved, clothed with rough glands or short prickles, scarcely dehiscent, few-seeded.

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

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

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