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Dehisce

verb

  1. To open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen, or other contents, as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants.
  2. To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.
  3. To gape; to open by dehiscence.

[Thomas Baker-Rabe, in conversation]

Demi-vierge

n.

  1. a girl or woman who behaves in a sexually provocative and permissive way without yielding her virginity

Also called: demi-virgin

[“The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles” — Scott Manley Hadley, Triumph Of The Now]

Desuetude

des·ue·tude /ˈdeswəˌt(y)o͞od/
  1. a state of disuse. “the docks fell into desuetude“