Meaning of dissilient | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“a dissilient pericarp”

“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.”

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