dissilient

adjective

1. Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.

   archaic

   a dissilient pericarp/joint

Where it comes from

From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dissilient (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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