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dehiscent

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈhɪsənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cdeehinstStarts with DEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (of e.g.

  2. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin dehīscentem, present participle of dehīscō (“to divide, split open, gape”), from hīscō (“to yawn, gape”).

Used in a sentence

  • a dehiscent fruit

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