Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehisce.(verb)
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Use "dehisces" in a sentence
"FRUIT: A capsule to 4.5 cm long which dehisces releasing cream, brown to black seeds depending on variety."
"The seed vessel, which dehisces horizontally, contains many small, heart-shaped seeds."
"The botanists tell me that its fruit "dehisces loculicidally," which I suppose is botanic for "splits like boxes," (but boxes shouldn't split, and didn't, as we used to make and handle them before railways)."