Dehiscent [adjective]

Dehiscent—the pericarp splits to allow the escape of the seeds—generally many-seeded.

Pericarp woody, dehiscent at the tip by 2–4 valves; contains 1–4 seeds, slightly orbiculate, coriaceous.

Seed vessel glabrous, horizontally dehiscent, containing 15 or more angular seeds joined to a common axis.

Capsules borne on the under side of a pedunculate receptacle, irregularly dehiscent.

Calyx not minute; pod colored, dehiscent; seeds enclosed in a pulpy aril.

Fruit dry and dehiscent; the pods (follicles) opening down the ventral suture, many-rarely few-seeded.

Anther-cells bilocellate by a vertical partition and longitudinally dehiscent.

A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepatic, etc.

The fruit of the Leguminos, formed of a simple pistil and usually dehiscent by both sutures.

Dehiscent, that is, they split open regularly along certain lines, and discharge the seeds.