Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Botany To open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen, or other contents, as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants.
- intransitive verb Medicine To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gape; specifically, in botany, to open, as the capsules of plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To gape; to open by dehiscence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, botany To
burst orsplit open atdefinite places,discharging seeds , orpollen , or other contents, as theripe pods of someplants . - verb intransitive, medicine To
rupture or break open, as asurgical wound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb burst or split open
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A major concern had been that the sutured tissue would break down, or dehisce.
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Insect larvae of many species typically destroy a large proportion of the mature seeds before they dehisce.
Chapter 8 1996
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The anther must dehisce (burst open) before pollen grains can be released.
Chapter 25 1996
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Koa pods are slow to dehisce and about 15 cm long and 25 to 4 cm wide.
Chapter 8 1996
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Bundles of unthreshed grains or pulses can be treated with smoke, but care must be taken that they do not dehisce while in storage.
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At this time the pods are ready to dehisce, or pop open to distribute the seeds.
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Pods of some crops such as peas, do not easily dehisce, but others, such as arugola, do so at the slightest touch, throwing seeds quite a distance (Figure 14.3).
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Koa pods are slow to dehisce and about 15 cm long and 2.5 to 4 cm wide.
Chapter 2 1990
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Insect larvae of many species typically destroy a large proportion of the mature seeds before they dehisce.
Chapter 2 1990
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Ripe pods dehisce along a single margin, and the mature, black, hard-coated seeds
Chapter 5 1983
hugobeng commented on the word dehisce
dehisce |diˈhis|, verb intrans. technical: (of a pod or seed vessel, or of a cut or wound) gape or burst open: after the anther lobes dehisce, the pollen is set free.
September 21, 2008
hugobeng commented on the word dehisce
dehisce |diˈhis|, verb intrans. technical: (of a pod or seed vessel, or of a cut or wound) gape or burst open: after the anther lobes dehisce, the pollen is set free. From a poem by Oni Buchanan.
September 21, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dehisce
JM celebrates any and all acts of dehisce and utters ooooohhh and aaaaahhhh!
January 5, 2010