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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Not splitting open at maturity: indehiscent fruit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, not dehiscent; not opening spontaneously when mature, as a capsule or anther.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds

Etymologies

  1. in- +‎ dehiscent (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Early in the Neolithic revolution, we chose to cultivate nonexploding—or indehiscent—varieties.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Fruit Hunters

  • “FRUIT: A grey to purple-black, straight or slightly curved indehiscent pod up to 12 cm long by 1.2 cm wide, with a whitish bloom and a gummy pulp.”

    Chapter 7

  • “Berry A juicy indehiscent fruit having the seeds enclosed in pulp.”

    Chapter 9

  • “Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds.”

    Chapter 10

  • “The nutritious indehiscent pods have evolved for animal dispersal.”

    Chapter 10

  • “Seeds are dispersed by herbivores eating the indehiscent pods or by the pods floating down rivers.”

    Chapter 10

  • “Unlike most legumes, the Pterocarpus fruit is indehiscent and dispersed by wind.”

    Chapter 8

  • “Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing. milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening.”

    Chapter 8

  • “Enterolobium cyclocarpum is also well-known for its distinctive, thickened, contorted, indehiscent pods which resemble an ear in form.”

    Chapter 8

  • “Enterolobiant cyclocarpum is also well-known for its distinctive, thickened, contorted, indehiscent pods which resemble an ear in form.”

    Chapter 7

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. indehiscence
  2. key
  3. cypsela
  4. caryopsis
  5. Uva
  6. nuculanium
  7. pseudospermium
  8. sarcobasis
  9. achascophytum
  10. indehiscent
  11. loment
  1. bacca
  2. amphispermium
  3. cremocarp
  4. endobasidium
  5. honey locust
  6. samara
  7. achene
  8. achænocarp
  9. weeping tree broom
  10. white-topped aster
  11. piscidia
  1. Samara
  2. simple fruit
  3. stone fruit
  4. nut
  5. berry
  6. utricle
  7. drupe
  8. genus piscidia
  9. key fruit
  10. achenial
  11. nucamentaceous
  1. tilia
  2. achenium
  3. carcerule
  4. geraniaceæ
  5. halleria
  6. hetærio
  7. hydrocharideæ
  8. isatideæ
  9. lamiales
  10. limnanthemum
  11. lippia
  1. myrsineæ
  2. myrteæ
  3. nephelium
  4. Phyllis
  5. pipereæ
  6. platymiscium
  7. prosopis
  8. psoralea
  9. rhamneæ
  10. rivineæ
  11. schizocarp
  1. tarrietia
  2. tropæolum

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  • yarb Milos! That's indehiscent exposure. Apr 22, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi There's probably a good pun in here somewhere. Apr 22, 2009

  • asativum Lovely word. Applies to achenes, where I found this one lurking pleasantly in the definition. Nov 20, 2007

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