How To Use dehiscent In A Sentence
- The fruits are ordinarily dehiscent capsules, while some species have baccate fruits or nut-like fruits.
- Despite this distribution, dehiscence does not occur in two sets: when the flower opens usually only one or two stamens are fertile, the others being short and indehiscent; these gradually elongate and open.
- In this paper, a case of dehiscent jugular bulb presenting as an asymptomatic retrotympanic bluish mass in the right ear of a 49-year-old male is reported.
- The nutritious indehiscent pods have evolved for animal dispersal. Chapter 10
- He observed that only pulpy, but indehiscent, fruits with a juicy, sweet flesh produce ethanol when becoming overripe.
- Seeds are dispersed by herbivores eating the indehiscent pods or by the pods floating down rivers. Chapter 10
- Cones indehiscent, from 9 to 14 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conical or subcylindrical; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, rugose, shrinking much in drying and exposing the seeds, prolonged and tapering to a more or less reflexed tip, the umbo inconspicuous; seeds large, wingless, the spermoderm entire. The Genus Pinus
- Unlike most legumes, the Pterocarpus fruit is indehiscent and dispersed by wind. Chapter 8
- Berry A juicy indehiscent fruit having the seeds enclosed in pulp. Chapter 9
- Sauer consequently provided the name Amaranthus rudis for plants with a circumscissily dehiscent utricle and single, well developed sepal.