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Definition of Dissilience
1. Noun. The emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Generic synonyms: Egress, Emergence, Issue
Derivative terms: Dissilient
Generic synonyms: Egress, Emergence, Issue
Derivative terms: Dissilient
Definition of Dissilience
1. n. The act of leaping or starting asunder.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissilience
Literary usage of Dissilience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"... their dissilience are increased. The art of conjecturing can in such a case
throw only a Tery feeble light— offered by the third formula above—on the ..."
2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"... many, although not all, containing one or several nuclei, others engaged in
the act of elongation, others again in progress of dissilience. ..."
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