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dehisce

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dehisce /dɪˈhɪs/

▶verb technical (of a pod or seed vessel, or of a cut or wound) gape or burst open.

– derivatives
dehiscence noun,
dehiscent adjective.

– origin C17: from L. dehiscere, from de- ‘away’ + hiscere ‘begin to gape’.

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