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What does circumscissile mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Describing any seed-vessel that splits along a circumference, with the upper part coming off as a lid
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Capsule filling the involucre, circumscissile in the middle, the calyptra persistent at its base.
Fruit: A circumscissile capsule enclosed within the persistent calyx.
Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
Page 58 condition of the circumsissle Changed to circumscissile.
In these the dehiscence extends all round, or is circumscissile.
Capsule membranaceous, circumscissile, the top falling off like a lid, many-seeded.

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