circumscissileadj.
/səːkəmˈsɪsɪl/ Botany.
Name for a form of dehiscence in which the seed-vessel (pyxidium) opens by a transverse circular line, so that the upper part comes off like a lid.
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ruptile1721
septicidal1812
septifragal1819
sutural1819
circumscissile1835
dehiscing1839
dehiscent1845
porous1861
circumsciss1870
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 5 Of valvular dehiscence, there is a very anomalous mode..called circumscissile.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §317 The fruit [of Mosses] is an urn-shaped capsule, which mostly opens by a circumscissile dehiscence.
1881 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
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