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Definition of Dehiscing
1. dehisce [v] - See also: dehisce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehiscing
Literary usage of Dehiscing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Calyx-limb partially lined with a disk, lobes each bearing a minute rudimentary
stamen; anthers dehiscing in bud? Stylée 4, spreading, subulate, ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... styles a line long ; capsule cordate-ovate, '2 lines long, the very abruptly
acute cells usually separating and then dehiscing ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"818, which grows in the low forests on the south and south-west coast of the
Caspian Sea (hardy in England), differs by long, apiculate anthers, dehiscing ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"Capsule ellipsoid-oval, dehiscing to the base by straight rigid valves ; capsule
wall of several layers of cells, those of the external layer thick, ..."
5. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... distinct or coherent at the base, many-ovuled, dehiscing inwards at the top
when ripe. ... dehiscing ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Filaments dilated above ; anther cells dehiscing in front. Berry J in. long,
ovoid, nearly black.—DISTRIB. Temp, and Arctic Europe, ..."
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