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How to use indehiscent in a sentence

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Fruits are occasionally baccate, usually capsular and sometimes winged or lobed, or indehiscent and dry or fleshy.
Arborescent lycopsids began life as an embryo germinating from an indehiscent megaspore.
It appears that the dehiscent and indehiscent forms do not belong to separate species, rather dehiscence is segregating within populations.
An Achene is a single-seeded dry indehiscent fruit in which the seedcoat is not part of the fruit coat.
He observed that only pulpy, but indehiscent, fruits with a juicy, sweet flesh produce ethanol when becoming overripe.
Some legume pods, such as carob and mesquite, are indehiscent and do not split open.
Writer slipped into the show without telling anyone, fearing that he would be thought too indehiscent to have an interest in flowers.
Although referred to as sunflower seed, it is more correctly described as a type of indehiscent fruit.
The morphological and anatomical details showed that the fruit of sea buckthorn is fleshy, anthocarpic, non-arillate, single-seeded and indehiscent.
Fruits 7-9 mm long, declined, persistent, indehiscent, ovoid or shortly oblong, compressed but turgid.
Fruit a capsule, berry, drupe or dry and indehiscent or a schizocarp, sometimes dicoccous, rarely a nutlet.
Fruits indehiscent, single-seeded, including siliques and silicles ranging from orbicular to oblong, obovate, ovate, or obpyriform, with septum lacking.
Similarly, the cultivated form retains its seed in an indehiscent capsule and is unlikely to be a crop contaminant in the way that other Papaver species can be.
He posits that early cattle-herders gathered entire plants by uprooting, an activity which would have created selection pressure for indehiscent pods.
Examples from Classical Literature
The pepo, another indehiscent syncarpous fruit, is illustrated by the fruit of the gourd, melon and other Cucurbitaceae.
Pod membranaceous, 1-seeded, indehiscent, enclosed in the persistent calyx.
As the result of the pollination the ovary developes into a dry 1-seeded indehiscent fruit.
The pod is compressed, semicircular in form, indehiscent, and toothed along the lower edge.
On the other hand, indehiscent fruits discharge these functions for the embryo, and the seed-coat is only slightly developed.
But some fruits are indehiscent, falling to dehiscence of fruits.
Fruit membranous and indehiscent, in the bottom of the calyx.
Capsules immersed in the thallus or sessile upon it, indehiscent.
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