dissilient

English

Etymology

From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).

Adjective

dissilient (comparative more dissilient, superlative most dissilient)

1. Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively.

   a dissilient pericarp

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dissilient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

dissilient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dissiliō