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

Fruit depressed-globular, separating when ripe into as many kidney-shaped 1-seeded beakless and scarcely dehiscent carpels as there are styles.

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

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

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

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

Filament slender; anther 2-celled, didymous; the cells dehiscent transversely; pollen-grains large, spherical, muricate.

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