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

Indehiscent, not splitting open; i. e. not dehiscent, 119.

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

Fruit a dry, dehiscent, conical-pointed, 5-celled capsule with 10 to 30 seeds, ripe in the autumn.

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

Tryma, trī′ma, n. a drupe with fleshy exocarp, dehiscent.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Fruit.—Dry; consisting of three dehiscent nutlets; sometimes crested.

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