septifragal

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adjective

Breaking from the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the common axis.

“septifragal mode”

OriginLatin frangere →
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Meanings

adjectiveseptifragal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyBreaking from the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the common axis.

    septifragal mode

    3 more examples

    septifragal dehiscence

    septifragal capsule

    the dehiscence is loculicidally septifragal

Origin

  1. Latinfrangere
  2. Englishseptifragal

From septum + Latin frangere, fractum (“to break”).

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