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indehiscent
[ in-di-his-uhnt ]
adjective
- not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
indehiscent
/ ˌɪԻɪˈɪəԳ /
adjective
- (of fruits) not dehiscent; not opening to release seeds
Derived Forms
- ˌԻˈԳ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- d·cԳ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of indehiscent1
Example Sentences
Pod flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the two cells indehiscent and falling away at maturity from the partition as closed nutlets, strongly wrinkled or tuberculate, 1 seeded.
A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; Ð called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
Samara, sā-mar′a, or sam′-, n. a dry indehiscent, usually one-sided fruit, with a wing, as in the ash, elm, and maple—the last a double samara.—adjs.
The drupe is a succulent usually one-seeded indehiscent fruit, with a pericarp easily distinguishable into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp.
Of dry fruits many are indehiscent; and these are variously arranged to be transported by animals.
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