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dehisce

[dih-his] / dɪˈhɪs /


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The anthers dehisce at different periods during the process of flowering; sometimes in the bud, but more commonly when the pistil is fully developed and the flower is expanded.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

It has been noted with respect to the nectar of the fuchsia that it is most abundant when the anthers are about to dehisce, and absent in the unexpanded flower.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Canes slender, dark brown, heavily pubescent; tendrils continuous, bifid, dehisce early.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

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

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

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

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

The follicle is a dry unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture.

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

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

From the young to the matured dehiscing plant.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Perisporiacei.—Except in the perithecia rupturing irregularly, and not dehiscing by a pore, some of the genera in this group differ little in structure from the Sphæriacei.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke




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