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dehisce

[dih-his] / dɪˈhɪs /


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They dehisce properly, but do not appear to contain much pollen.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin

The name capsule is applied generally to all dry syncarpous fruits, which dehisce by valves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In some Leguminosae, as Arachis, Cathartocarpus Fistula and the tamarind, the fruit must be considered a legume, although it does not dehisce.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

From these masses of ova dehisce into the body cavity and float in its fluid.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The stamens are very numerous, and are spirally arranged; and the carpels are variable in number, sessile or stipitate and slightly united at the base and dehisce by ventral suture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

I suspect also that the pistil goes on growing for some time after the anthers have dehisced.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin

Mr. Blackley observed that the ripe anthers of rye did not dehisce whilst kept under a bell-glass in a damp atmosphere, whilst other anthers exposed to the same temperature in the open air dehisced freely.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

They protruded two very large much-branched panicles; but the florets never opened, though these included fully developed stigmas, and stamens supported on long filaments with large anthers that dehisced properly.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin

Parachute Fruits 1, Ripe fruit of willow-herb, dehiscing.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Capsule globose, exserted, pendulous, dehiscing by several revolute segments.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Follicle, a pod formed from a single pistil, dehiscing along the ventral suture only.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Capsule distinctly pedicelled, oblong-globose, dehiscing by 4–6 irregular valves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The legume or pod is a dry monocarpellary unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel, dehiscing both by the ventral and the dorsal suture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various




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