Meanings
comparative more dissilient · superlative most dissilient
- archaicbiologyForcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
a dissilient pericarp/joint
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We may, however, notice Impàtiens, merely for the purpose of alluding to the dissilient property of its capsules, which, when ripe, burst with such force as to scatter the seeds to a considerable distance around.
1835, James Main, Illustrations of Vegetable Physiology, […] , second edition, London: Orr and Smith, Paternoster-Row: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefrairs, pages 84–85Synonyms: ballochorous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveForcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels
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Origin
- Latindissiliens
- Englishdissilient
From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).
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