DISSILIENCE

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 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

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)

Derivation:

dissilient (bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels)