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Definition of Dehisces
1. dehisce [v] - See also: dehisce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehisces
Literary usage of Dehisces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"envelope of the capsule dehisces spontaneously when ripe, so that the seed is
easily shed ; and another, in which the seed remains enclosed within the ..."
2. Botany, Developmental and Descriptive by William Mansfield (1922)
"A legume is a dry, unilocular fruit that dehisces by the ventral and dorsal ...
A loculicidal capsule dehisces through the dorsal sutures of each carpel, ..."
3. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"The capsule has a dry pericarp which opens (dehisces) at maturity. ... Follicle;
a capsule with a single carpel which dehisces along the ventral, or upper, ..."
4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"When young the fructification forms a white, egg- shaped body, and is wholly
enveloped by a double-walled peridium with an inter- the dry fruit dehisces, ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"... persistent till the fruit is perfect and then falling off, when the latter
dehisces and disseminates the seed. One, sometimes two, deciduous, subulate, ..."
6. Elements of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1897)
"of the marsh marigold, the columbine, and a good many other plants, often produce
a fruit which dehisces along a single suture, usually the ventral one. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... ium dehisces by two valves, and is traversed in the middle line by a fco. «.
.... stalk, and foot ; the capsule dehisces by lour valves. ..."
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