The nutritious indehiscent pods have evolved for animal dispersal. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Berry A juicy indehiscent fruit having the seeds enclosed in pulp. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Unlike most legumes, the Pterocarpus fruit is indehiscent and dispersed by wind. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Technically speaking, it is a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded dry fruit resulting from. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
As the result of the pollination the ovary developes into a dry 1-seeded indehiscent fruit. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fruit are narrow, indehiscent, 2. 5-7.5 cm long and about 1.25 cm in diameter, with a long tapering beak. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 27] Reference
In other flowers, otherwise perfectly formed, one abortive stamen was found bearing a spherical indehiscent anther. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
On the other hand, indehiscent fruits discharge these functions for the embryo, and the seed-coat is only slightly developed. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Enterolobium cyclocarpum is also well-known for its distinctive, thickened, contorted, indehiscent pods which resemble an ear in form. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Enterolobiant cyclocarpum is also well-known for its distinctive, thickened, contorted, indehiscent pods which resemble an ear in form. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing, milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing. milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Armandi, but can easily be distinguished by its tomentose branchlets, indehiscent cone and peculiar seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Fruit about size and form of a small apple, thick, brown, pericarp indehiscent, 5 or more one-seeded compartments. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Fruit truncate, oval, downy, indehiscent, marked with furrows, with 2 compartments each containing a seed inserted on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
P. albicaulis is distinguished from its allies by its entire leaves with both dorsal and ventral stomata, from P. flexilis by its indehiscent cone, and from all of these species by its seed without membranous cover or rudimentary wing. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Cones indehiscent, from 9 to 14 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conical or subcylindrical; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, rugose, shrinking much in drying and exposing the seeds, prolonged and tapering to a more or less reflexed tip, the umbo inconspicuous; seeds large, wingless, the spermoderm entire. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The following classification is based on the gradual evolution of the fruit from a cone symmetrical in form, parenchymatous in tissue, indehiscent and deciduous at maturity, releasing its wingless seed by disintegration -- to a cone oblique in form, very strong and durable in tissue, persistent on the tree, intermittently dehiscent, releasing its winged seeds partly at maturity, partly at indefinite intervals during several years. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Queensland, “Fruit oblong, succulent, indehiscent; seed numerous; tree-like herbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Cones indehiscent, deciduous at maturity. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Cones indehiscent I. Cembrae. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
1. indehiscent. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Cones indehiscent I. Cembrae. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
"A Samara is a dry, indehiscent, winged, often one-seeded fruit, as of the ash, elm, or maple. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
A child who loves flowers goes to school; he is given one of his favorites and told to pull it to pieces, look at its different parts, and label them with such words as petals, sepals, pistil, stamens; to these are presently added calyx, corolla, monopetalous, polypetalous, innate, adnate, indehiscent, etc., until the child's mind resembles a lumber room of senseless rubbish, in which the flower is buried and lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
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