dehiscent

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And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Pod ovate or oblong-linear, compressed, often curved, clothed with rough glands or short prickles, scarcely dehiscent, few-seeded.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Pod dehiscent when ripe by two valves, tipped with a flat or angled beak White Mustard, Brassica alba. 23b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Sporangium regular and stipitate or sessile, rarely plasmodiocarp; the wall a thin membrane, usually granular or venulose on the inner surface, colored as the spores and capillitium, irregularly dehiscent.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Tryma, trī′ma, n. a drupe with fleshy exocarp, dehiscent.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various