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adj
Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
Synonyms: ballochorous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).
