Associations to the word «Dehiscence»
Noun
Adjective
| 1 |
Wiktionary
DEHISCENCE, noun. (botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
DEHISCENCE, noun. (medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
DEHISCENCE, noun. (rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
Dictionary definition
DEHISCENCE, noun. (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.