Dehisce Definition

dĭ-hĭs
dehisced, dehisces, dehiscing
verb
To split open along definite structural lines, as the seedpods of legumes, lilies, etc. do.
Webster's New World
To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Dehisce

  • Latin dehīscere dē- de- hīscere to split inchoative of hiāre to be open

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin de- + hiscere to split, from hiare to be open, related to hiatus

    From Wiktionary

Dehisce Sentence Examples

  • The sporangia, which arise in basipetal succession on the receptacle, dehisce by a median slit, though the annulus is somewhat oblique; they have resemblances to the Gleicheniaceae.

  • The sporangia dehisce by a transverse slit, the annulus being truly vertical or, in some of the genera in which they are regularly arranged, very slightly oblique.

  • The anthers dehisce at different periods during the process of flowering; sometimes in the bud, but more commonly when the pistil is fully developed and the flower is expanded.

  • They either dehisce simultaneously or in succession.

  • In the latter case individual stamens may move in succession towards the pistil and discharge their contents, as in Parnassia palustris, or the outer or the inner stamens may first dehisce, following thus a centripetal or centrifugal order.

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ECESCE

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