Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany the property of being indehiscent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The property or state of being indehiscent.
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- noun The state of being
indehiscent
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Examples
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Chiang Stumps Even Her Teacher, the reporter for The Christian Science Monitor listed indehiscence (a botanical term for the state of being closed at maturity), maunder (to move slowly and uncertainly), and cenote (a sinkhole) among a list of eight difficult words she had used, saying that even Wellesley professors had to consult their dictionaries.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Pakula humorously tracks the over-the-top press coverage during this tour, laced with Oriental exoticisms about her "ivory skin" and "almond eyes," as well as May-ling's fondness for impressing her audience with obscure words like "indehiscence" and "cenote" in her speeches.
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