Usually means: Release contents by splitting open.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dehisce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dehisce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dehisce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dehisce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dehisce: Vocabulary.com
  6. dehisce: Wordnik
  7. dehisce: Wiktionary
  8. dehisce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dehisce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dehisce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dehisce: Dictionary.com
  12. Dehisce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dehisce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. dehisce: Rhymezone
  15. Dehisce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. dehisce: Free Dictionary
  17. dehisce: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. dehisce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dehisce: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dehisce: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dehisce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dehisce: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. dehisce: Medical dictionary
  3. Dehisce: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dehisce: A Word A Day
  2. dehisce: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dehisce)

verb:  (intransitive, botany) To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine) To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.

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