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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Dehiscing by splitting along or through the septa. Used of a seed capsule.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Dividing at the septa or partitions: in botany, noting a mode of dehiscence in which the pericarp or fruit is resolved into its component carpels by splitting asunder through the dissepiments. See dehiscence, 2, and compare loculicidal.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Etymologies

  1. septum + Latin caedere to cut: compare French septicide. (Wiktionary)
  2. sept(um) + Latin -cīdere, to cut (from caedere; see caesura) + -al1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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