dehiscence

/dih-his-uhns/US // dɪˈhɪs əns //

开裂,裂开,裂缝,裂口

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Biology. the release of materials by the splitting open of an organ or tissue.
- : Botany. the natural bursting open of capsules, fruits, anthers, etc., for the discharge of their contents.
- : Surgery. the bursting open of a surgically closed wound.

Nothing similar appears in the gray specimens of the present form, although the dehiscence is quite as certainly circumscissile.
Trees with furrowed bark; pulp surrounding nut continuous, without lines of dehiscence on the surface.
Fruit a large, bony, edible nut surrounded by a husk that has no regular dehiscence.
Regular Dehiscence in a capsule takes place in two ways, which are best illustrated in pods of two or three cells.
When the anther-lobes are erect, the cleft is lengthwise along the line of the suture—longitudinal dehiscence (fig. 25).