Dissilient

adj

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Definitions

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

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Example

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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."

Etymology

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

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