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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dehiscing by the breaking away of the valves from the septa. Used of a seed capsule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, literally, breaking from the partitions: noting a mode of dehiscence in which the backs of the carpels separate from the dissepiments, whether formed by their sides or by expansions of the placenta. See
dehiscence , 2, and comparesepticidal and loculicidal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Breaking from the
partitions ; said of a method ofdehiscence in which thevalves of apod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the commonaxis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[sept(um) + Latin frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
septum + Latin frangere, fractum, to break.
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