dehiscent's Usage Examples:

The absence of an annulus from their indehiscent sporangia makes it impossible to compare them with the other Ferns in respect of this important character.

- Dry dehiscent Fruit.

The anthers are called introrse when they dehisce by the surface next to the centre of the flower; they are extrorse when they dehisce by the outer surface; when they dehisce by the sides, as in Iris and some grasses, they are laterally dehiscent.

On the other hand, indehiscent fruits discharge these functions for the embryo, and the seed-coat is only slightly developed.

more; it is indehiscent, and the small seed germinates whilst the fruit is still attached to the tree, putting out a tuft of roots and a shoot, and not falling till the latter is 6 in.

If the fruit is a dehiscent one and the seed is therefore soon exposed, the seed-coat has to provide for the protection of the embryo and may also have to secure dissemination.

indehiscent, single-seeded fruit with a hard woody wall " .

The order is easily distinguished by the hard, dry, woody texture of the leaves and the dehiscent fruits.

Fruit ofSporo- bolus, showing the dehiscent pericarp and seed.

Synonyms:

dehiscence,

Antonyms:

indehiscent, dehiscence,