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
Calyx not minute; pod colored, dehiscent; seeds enclosed in a pulpy aril.
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 Asa Gray
Capsules borne on the under side of a pedunculate receptacle, irregularly 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 Asa Gray
Indehiscent, not splitting open; i. e. not dehiscent, 119.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Valve, the several parts of a dehiscent pericarp; the doorlike lid by which some anthers open.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
