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To gape; to open by dehiscence.

The act of gaping.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

The property or state of being indehiscent.

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.

Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]

ubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Any dry dehiscent fruit.

A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.