dehiscent

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And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Anther-cells bilocellate by a vertical partition and longitudinally dehiscent.

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 Gray, Asa

Coat of fruit more or less dehiscent into 4 valves; nut smoothish; leaflets, except in one species, not over 11 in number, usually 5-7 82. Carya.    q.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

The fructification is a delicate netted plasmodiocarp, the tubule about .5 mm., bright red; the peridium simple, cartilaginous, dehiscent from above, and flecked with just here and there a red calcareous scale.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel of a compound pistil, 122.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa