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Dehisce

Definition: Dehisce

Dehisce

Verb

1. Burst or split open, as of flowers and seeds when releasing pollen or seeds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Dehisce \De*hisce"\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression dehiscere; de- hiscere to gape.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: Dehisce

Language Translations for "dehisce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

çel (bloom, blossom, flower, hatch, open up, unfold). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تفتح (bloom, blossom, open, sobering, unfold, unlatch). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пуквам се (burst open, deflate, quicken). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ترکیدن (Blow, Blowout, Burst, Crack, Explode, Pop, Reave, Rive, Rupture), شکفتن (Burst, Nip, Open). (various references)

   

French

  

déhiscenter. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felnyílik (open up, to trip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

deiscenza (dehiscence), aprirsi per deiscenza. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehisceday

   

Portuguese

  

ser decente, entreabrir-se, abrir (barge, cut, cut up, deploy, ditcher, driftage, Frank, free, let by, open, open up, pecker, rip, Rive, spread, to open, unbar, unclasp, unclench, unclose, undraw, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstrap). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se deschide brusc (fly open). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раскрываться (open, unfold). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspući. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abrir (beat, beat out, blast, break, cut open, discover, draw, drive, expose, open, open up, opening, pick, plough, plow, put up, set up, sharpen, shell, start, to open, to trip, tread, tread down, turn on, turn up, unbar, unburden, uncurl, undo, unfold, zip, zip open, zip up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarılmak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, rip, slit, split off, tear, yawn), tohum kabuğu açılmak, açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), çatlamak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, craze, die of exhaustion, fracture, split, spring). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розкриватися (open, open out), розпукуватися (bud, open, open up, put forth), зяяти (gape, stare), лопатися (burst, pop). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dehisce

Derivations

Words beginning with "dehisce": dehisced, dehiscence, dehiscences, dehiscent, dehisces. (additional references)

Words containing "dehisce": indehiscence, indehiscences, indehiscent. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dehisce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dachsie, Danisco, dihisce, Duhesme, ethische. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dehisce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-s"

-1 letter: chides, deices, seiche.

-2 letters: cedes, cedis, chide, deice, dices, eched, eches, heeds, hides, shied.

-3 letters: cede, cedi, cees, chid, chis, dees, dice, dies, disc, dish, eche, edhs, eide, heed, hide, hied, hies, iced, ices, ichs, ides, seed, shed, sice, side.

-4 letters: cee, chi, cis, dee, die, dis, edh, eds, hes, hic, hid, hie, his, ice, ich, ids, sec, see, sei, she, sic.

-5 letters: de, ed, eh, es, he, hi, id, is, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-s"
 

+1 letter: cepheids, chedites, chiseled, dehisced, dehisces.

 

+2 letters: beachside, cashiered, cheddites, chelipeds, cherished, chiselled, deciphers, dehiscent, richweeds.

 

+3 letters: besmirched, chickadees, chickweeds, christened, dehiscence, dischargee, endarchies, headpieces, herbicides, juiceheads, restitched, theodicies, witchweeds.

 

+4 letters: archdiocese, chandeliers, chandleries, chemisorbed, decipherers, dehiscences, dischargees, discotheque, echinoderms, headachiest, hemstitched, indehiscent, merchandise, psychedelia, psychedelic, schematized, shipwrecked, speechified.

 

+5 letters: archdioceses, candlefishes, chalcedonies, chesterfield, clotheslined, debaucheries, discotheques, disenchanted, disenchanter, enfranchised, hexadecimals, indehiscence, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandizes, mischanneled, pitchblendes, predischarge, psychedelias, psychedelics, rechristened, rescheduling, semidetached, stepchildren, unchristened.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dehisce


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 68 69 73 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    ....    ..    ...    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01101000 01101001 01110011 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0068 0069 0073 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38717475856971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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