A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit.
Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Should the reader be interested in the various ways in which the dehiscent fruits discharge their seeds, he will do well to collect a number of species, as yet unopened, and expose them to the sun in a dry place.
The Capsule=, the dry and dehiscent fruit of any compound pistil.
The pods or dehiscentfruits belonging to a compound ovary have several technical names: but they all may be regarded as kinds of 370.
A dehiscent fruit almost always contains many or several seeds, or at least more than one seed.
Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel of a compound pistil, 122.
Dehiscent Fruits, or Pods, are of two classes, viz.
Valve, the several parts of a dehiscent pericarp; the doorlike lid by which some anthers open.
Defn: A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit.
Defn: A pod dehiscentinto two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Defn: Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.
Defn: Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Defn: Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
Sporangia more or less depressed, roundish or more commonly polygonal and irregular, dehiscent in a circumscissile manner.
Sporangium at maturity dehiscent in a regular circumscissile manner, the apex falling away as a lid, leaving behind the more persistent cup-shaped portion.
A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticae, etc.
Stemless, leaves all in a cluster from the root; capsule dehiscent by valves or teeth.
Pod cylindrical, dehiscentby twice as many equal teeth as styles.
Hutchinsiae, enlarged; two pairs of leaves seen from below; a lower lobe separate and divided; a perianth with its outer involucre and the dehiscent capsule; an elater.
Dehiscent into the cavity of a cell through the dorsal suture.
Fruit depressed-globular, separating when ripe into as many kidney-shaped 1-seeded beakless and scarcely dehiscent carpels as there are styles.
The fruit of the Leguminosae, formed of a simple pistil and usually dehiscent by both sutures.
Capsule oblong or ovate, truncate, dehiscent at the summit.
Anthers linear, extrorsely attached near the middle to the tapering apex of the long filament, which is at first included, at length versatile; the cells dehiscent by a lateral or slightly introrse line.
Pod 4--20-valved, dehiscent only at the top or to the middle.
When the pericarp is dehiscent the seed-covering is of a strong and often rough character; but when the pericarp is indehiscent and encloses the seed for a long period, the outer seed-coat is thin and soft.
A plant is dehiscent at the discharging point of its spores.
Inner peridium membranaceous; dehiscent at the apex by a single mouth; columella none; threads of the capillitium very long, much branched and interwoven.
Inner peridium dehiscent at the apex by a single mouth; columella present; threads of the capillitium simple, tapering to each extremity.
Inner peridium cartilaginous, dehiscent at the apex by a stellate fissure; columella none; threads of the capillitium very long, much branched and interwoven.
Peridium subglobose, membranaceous, dehiscent by a regular apical mouth; threads of the capillitium free, short, several times dichotomously branched.
Peridium membranaceous, dehiscentby a regular apical mouth; threads of the capillitium very long, much branched and interwoven.
Fruit of 2 woody ovoid glandular-setulose carpels, dehiscenton the ventral and partly dehiscent on the dorsal suture.
Fruit an ovoid acuminate 4 or 5-valved loculicidally dehiscent capsule densely coated with long matted hairs, the inner surface of the cells villose-pubescent.
The seed vessel of plants of the Pea family, composed of a solitary carpel normally dehiscent only by the ventral suture.
Fruit a 5-celled 5-valved capsule septicidally dehiscent from the base, the valves separating from a persistent 5-angled axis thickened toward the apex and 5-winged toward the base.
Fruit a 3-lobed capsule separating from the persistent axis into three 2-valved 1-seeded carpels dehiscent on the dorsal suture and partly dehiscent on the ventral suture.
Dehiscent into the cavity of a pericarp by the back, that is through a dorsal suture.
Fruit subglobose, 3-lobed, the outer coat thin and septicidally dehiscent into 3 1-seeded crustaceous nutlets 2-valved at apex.
From the latter it is also distinct in its dehiscent cone and in its seed.
The dehiscent cone distinguishes this group from the Cembrae.
In the Lariciones the cone is symmetrical, and dehiscent and deciduous at maturity, while the spring-shoot is uninodal.
I have assumed the cone to be dehiscent at maturity and have placed it with the Lariciones, but if further information shows the cone to be serotinous, this species should be transferred to the serotinous group.
This group combines the dehiscent cone of the Lariciones with the wood-anatomy of the serotinous Pines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dehiscent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agape; ajar; cleft; cloven; cracked; cut; gaping; open; rent; rift; slit; split; yawning
