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dissilience

The word dissilience means the quality of certain seeds to burst out from their pods. Botanists might talk about the dissilience of a ripe pea plant.

The noun dissilience is rare — you're most likely to find it in a botany textbook, describing a ripe, bursting seed pod. The dissilience of some plants causes their seeds to pop out suddenly from their pods. The word's origin reflects this sense of bursting open: it comes from the Latin dissilīre, "to fly apart," from dis-, "apart," and salīre, "to leap or fly."

Definitions of dissilience
  1. noun
    the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe
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    type of:
    egress, emergence, issue
    the becoming visible
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