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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a loculicidal manner.
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Examples
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"Stamens six, hypogenous! anthers introrse! capsule cartilaginous, loculicidally three-valved, scurfy-leaved epiphytic!"
"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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The botanists tell me that its fruit "dehisces loculicidally," which I suppose is botanic for "splits like boxes," (but boxes shouldn't split, and didn't, as we used to make and handle them before railways).
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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