Usually means: Opening of a plant structure.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word dehiscence:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dehiscence: Merriam-Webster
  2. dehiscence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dehiscence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dehiscence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dehiscence: Vocabulary.com
  6. dehiscence: Wordnik
  7. dehiscence: Wiktionary
  8. dehiscence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dehiscence: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dehiscence: Dictionary.com
  11. Dehiscence (botany), Dehiscence (disambiguation), Dehiscence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dehiscence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dehiscence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. dehiscence: Rhymezone
  15. Dehiscence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. dehiscence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. dehiscence: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dehiscence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dehiscence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dehiscence (botany), dehiscence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dehiscence (botany), dehiscence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dehiscence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Dehiscence (botany), dehiscence: Medical dictionary
  5. Dehiscence: Conditions of the Foot and Ankle

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dehiscence)

noun:  (botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
noun:  (medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
noun:  (rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.

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