单词 | dissilience |
释义 | dissilience (once / 5909656 pages) n The word dissilience means the quality of certain seeds to burst out from their pods. Botanists might talk about the dissilience of a ripe pea plant. The noun dissilience is rare — you're most likely to find it in a botany textbook, describing a ripe, bursting seed pod. The dissilience of some plants causes their seeds to pop out suddenly from their pods. The word's origin reflects this sense of bursting open: it comes from the Latin dissilīre, "to fly apart," from dis-, "apart," and salīre, "to leap or fly." WORD FAMILYdissilient: dissilience n the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe Hyper egress, emergence, issue the becoming visible |
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