Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dehiscing by splitting longitudinally through the septa. Used of a seed capsule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dividing at the septa or partitions: in botany, noting a mode of dehiscence in which the pericarp or fruit is resolved into its component carpels by splitting asunder through the dissepiments. See
dehiscence , 2, and compareloculicidal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Dividing the
partitions ; said of a method ofdehiscence in which apod splits through the partitions and is divided into itscomponent carpels .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[sept(um) + Latin -cīdere, to cut (from caedere; see caesura) + –al.]
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septum + Latin caedere to cut: compare French septicide.
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reesetee commented on the word septicidal
In botany, dehiscing by splitting along or through the septa. Used of a seed capsule.
September 16, 2008