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indehiscent

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds

How To Use indehiscent In A Sentence

  • Some legume pods, such as carob and mesquite, are indehiscent and do not split open.
  • Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds. Chapter 10
  • FRUIT: A grey to purple-black, straight or slightly curved indehiscent pod up to 12 cm long by 1.2 cm wide, with a whitish bloom and a gummy pulp. Chapter 7
  • Fruits are occasionally baccate, usually capsular and sometimes winged or lobed, or indehiscent and dry or fleshy.
  • Early in the Neolithic revolution, we chose to cultivate nonexploding—or indehiscent—varieties. The Fruit Hunters
  • An Achene is a single-seeded dry indehiscent fruit in which the seedcoat is not part of the fruit coat.
  • Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing. milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening. Chapter 8
  • Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds. Chapter 10
  • It appears that the dehiscent and indehiscent forms do not belong to separate species, rather dehiscence is segregating within populations.
  • Berry A juicy indehiscent fruit having the seeds enclosed in pulp. Chapter 9
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