A bursting open or splitting along natural or sutured lines. You probably have seen this when some plants' fruiting bodies open and their seeds are released.
dehiscent
Dehiscent fruit --- fruits that opens at maturity to release seeds.
Indehiscent fruit do not split open when ripe. Dehiscent fruits do split open along a built in line of weakness. An example of a dehiscent fruit is a peanut. An indehiscent fruit would be an apple.
The fruit matures open and releases seeds in angiosperms. Fruits are dehiscent and nondehiscent types.
dehiscenthave open fruits and they disperse when mature indehiscentdo not have open fruits.
Legume(Pea, Peanut), Sweet Gum, Milkweed, Columbine Legume(Pea, Peanut), Sweet Gum, Milkweed, Columbine okro, crotalaria, beans
Dehiscent the mature overy wall (pericarp) breaks open therby freeing the seeds. Indehiscent seeds remain in the fruit after the fruit has ben shed from the parent plant.
n. # Botany. ## A dehiscent fruit of a leguminous plant such as the pea. ## A dry, several-seeded, dehiscent fruit. Also called seedpod. # Zoology. A protective covering that encases the eggs of some insects and fish. # A casing or housing forming part of a vehicle, as: ## A streamlined external housing that encloses engines, machine guns, or fuel. ## Aerospace. A detachable compartment on a spacecraft for carrying personnel or instrumentation. # Something resembling a pod, as in compactness.v., pod·ded, pod·ding, pods. v.intr. # To bear or produce pods. # To expand or swell like a pod. v.tr. To remove (seeds) from a pod.
Meant... As in "he was meant to have it."
by water Horse gram is a terrestrial plant bearing pods. The pods are dry dehiscent type and maturity these are split open to disperse seeds. These seeds may be carried away by several birds and animals as food.
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The homophone for "meant" is "mint".