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indehiscent

indehiscent adjective: not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.

Adjective

indehiscent (not comparable)

  1. Not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.
    • The farmer wants indehiscent heads of a cereal which can be gathered without shedding their grain.
    • A rich and dark and indehiscent meat2006 June, A. E. Stallings, “Olives”, in The New Criterion, volume 24, page 28
    Synonyms:
    non-shedding

indehiscent meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Tagalog

indehiscent in Tamil

வெடிக்காத, வெடியா

indehiscent in Marathi

botany
अस्फुटनशील asphuṭanśīl, अस्फुटिर asphuṭir, बद्ध baddha, कठिण kaṭhiṇ, न उकलणारे na ukalṇāre, अस्फोटी asphoṭī

indehiscent in Tagalog

botany
ditilarin

Synonyms of indehiscent

Antonyms

Origin of indehiscent

From in- + dehiscent.

Questions about indehiscent

What does indehiscent mean?
Indehiscent means not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.
What is indehiscent in Tamil?
Indehiscent in Tamil is வெடிக்காத, வெடியா. See Indehiscent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is indehiscent?
Indehiscent is an adjective.

Words near indehiscent in the dictionary

  1. indeformable
  2. indefs
  3. indegree
  4. indegrees
  5. indehiscence
  6. indehiscent
  7. indel
  8. indelable
  9. indeleble
  10. indelectable
  11. indelegability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indehiscent (page history and authors); indehiscent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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