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Definition of Dehiscent
1. Adjective. (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds.
Definition of Dehiscent
1. a. Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
Definition of Dehiscent
1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Which dehisces or presents dehiscence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dehiscent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dehiscent
1. Breaking open at maturity to release the contents. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehiscent
Literary usage of Dehiscent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"A Follicle is a pod formed of a simple pistil, and dehiscent by one suture ...
648-650), fleshy carpels become follicles dehiscent by the dorsal suture. ..."
2. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"One way is to group them into those which are dehiscent and those which are
indehiscent. Fruits that open on maturity, permitting the ready escape of the ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"But the fruit is not dehiscent, since the pericarp is still intact and ...
dehiscent Fruits. 876. Of the dehiscent fruits several prominent types are ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"But the fruit is not dehiscent, since the pericarp is still intact and ...
dehiscent Fruits. 876. Of the dehiscent fruits several prominent types are ..."
5. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"But the fruit is not dehiscent, since the pericarp is still intact and ...
The dry dehiscent fruits are pods, but several prominent types are recognized. 3. ..."
6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... about AD 1310 (Haydn). The town was named from its del/ or canal ; cf. Delve.
dehiscent, gaping. (L.~. L. dehiscent-, stem of près. pt. of ..."
7. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Fruit a white globose dehiscent berry J in. diam. Trans-Indus, eastern slopes of
Suliman range, ascending to 3800 ft. Salt range, not uncommon. ..."
8. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Capsule membranous, covered by the calyx, dehiscent. Seeds numerous, small,
without albumen.— Herbs, rarely shrubs. ..."
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