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Adjective
(botany) Breaking from the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the common axis.
Examples
The fruits are stipitate elongate-elliptical septifragal capsules with two to three wings formed from a 3-carpellate ovary.