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Definition of Circumscissile
1. a. Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Definition of Circumscissile
1. Adjective. (botany) Describing any seed-vessel that splits along a circumference, with the upper part coming off as a lid ¹
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Definition of Circumscissile
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Circumscissile
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumscissile
Literary usage of Circumscissile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"with 4 to 8 seeds in each cell, circumscissile near the middle. lung; sepals
green in the middle, with scarious edges; capsule 2-celled ably introduced from ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"... spreading; pyxis 2.5-3 mm. long, circumscissile at the middle; seeds 2. ...
pyxis twice as long as the sepals, circumscissile just below the middle. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Fruit a pyxis, circumscissile at or below the middle, or an indehiscent nutlet.
Seeds 1-several in each cavity of the fruit ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons ..."
4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1895)
"There remains then only to consider whether all these species shall be united
with Lewisia on the common characters of the circumscissile capsule and ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America. by Asa Gray (1878)
"Capsule more or less regularly circumscissile, usually capped by the remains of the
... Styles united into one: stigmas capitate : capsule circumscissile. ..."
6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"Capsule circumscissile near the middle. Leaves broad, mostly oval . . . . . . .
1. P. major. Leaves lanceolate 2. P. lanceolate. In saline soil; leaves oval ..."
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