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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]