dissilient
Meanings
adj
- Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
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Etymology
From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).
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