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Dissilient

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open; primed to do so; dehiscing explosively.

    "a dissilient pericarp"

Adjective
  1. 1
    bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels wordnet

Etymology

From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).

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