In other flowers, otherwise perfectly formed, one abortive stamen was found bearing a spherical indehiscent anther.
Indehiscent one-seeded pods occur in species of clover and in Medicago, also in Dalbergia and allied genera, where they are winged.
In Desmodium, Entada and others the pod is constricted between each seed, and breaks up into indehiscent one-seeded parts; it is then called a lomentum (fig.
The Akene or Achenium= is a small, dry and indehiscent one-seeded fruit, often so seed-like in appearance that it is popularly taken for a naked seed.
Fruit a 2 or 3-celled broad-winged indehiscent samara surrounded by a reticulate wing or rarely wingless.
Fruit a drupe, with as manyindehiscent bony or crustaceous 1-seeded nutlets as carpels; sarcocarp thin and fleshy.
Fruit obconic, composed of 3 or 4 dry woody 1-seeded indehiscent carpels with a cartilaginous endocarp and with a prominent horizontal wing, separating at maturity.
Fruit capsular, angled or winged, separating at maturity into 5 indehiscent carpels.
A hard and indehiscent 1-seeded pericarp produced from a compound ovary.
Defn: A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
The pepo, another indehiscent syncarpous fruit, is illustrated by the fruit of the gourd, melon (fig.
Indehiscent fruits are either dry, as the nut, or fleshy, as the cherry and apple.
The general term schizocarp is applied to all dry fruits, which break up into two or more one-seeded indehiscent mericarps, as in Hedysarum (fig.
The drupe is a succulent usually one-seeded indehiscent fruit, with a pericarp easily distinguishable into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp.
The nut or glans is a dry one-celled indehiscent fruit with a hardened pericarp, often surrounded by bracts at the base, and, when mature, containing only one seed.
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.
The achene is a dry, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit, the pericarp of which is closely applied to the seed, but separable from it.
A hard indehiscent 1-celled and 1-seeded fruit, though usually resulting from a compound ovary.
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.
Fruit depressed, separating at maturity into as many 1-seeded and indehiscent round kidney-shaped blunt carpels as there are styles.
Fruit separating into 2 or 3 closed andindehiscent carpels; otherwise as n.
Fruit with a fibrous-fleshy indehiscent epicarp, and a mostly rough irregularly furrowed endocarp or nut-shell.
Calyptra closely investing the single globose indehiscent capsule, crowned with a deciduous point.
Various modifications of these indehiscent fruits are to be met with; thus, the blackberry is not really a berry, but a cluster of little drupes formed from a single pistil of many carpels.
A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
Peridium, general covering of a puff-ball, simple or double, dehiscent or indehiscent at maturity.
Armandi, but can easily be distinguished by its tomentose branchlets, indehiscentcone and peculiar seed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indehiscent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
