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dehiscing

Variant of dehisce

intransitive verb dehisced, dehiscing

to split open along definite structural lines, as the seedpods of legumes, lilies, etc.

Origin: L dehiscere < de-, off + hiscere, to gape, inchoative of hiare: see hiatus

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