dissilience
9.9
The bursting open of seed pods that makes seeds fall out when ripe
- noun
- Archaic
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disiliencia
- After the summer rain, the dissilience of the ripe capsules filled the air with seeds.
Examples
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In botany, dissilience is vital for the distribution of plant species, triggered when the pods burst open.
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He become the most supreme of the lethal dissilience.
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The dissilience of the seed pods allowed the seeds to scatter across the field.
Synonyms
release
vsdissilience
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3.6
The act of letting a liquid, gas, or energy flow out
is the botanical bursting open of pods to free seeds at ripeness
Surface Forms
dissilience singular
dissiliencies plural
Morphology
dissilience = dissilient (opaque) = dis + sili + ence
Forming a noun from the adjective 'dissilient' with the productive suffix '-ence' is a regular, transparent nominalization.
Etymology
Dissilience comes from the parts dis- ('apart') and silire ('to leap'), an idea you can also see in the 'sault' of somersault meaning a jump. So in botany dissilience is the sudden bursting open of a seed pod, as if the parts 'leap apart' and the seeds 'jump' out.