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DISSILIENCE

Dictionary entry overview: What does dissilience mean?

• DISSILIENCE (noun)
The noun DISSILIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe

Familiarity information: DISSILIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DISSILIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("dissilience" is a kind of...):

egress; emergence; issue (the becoming visible)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

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