In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DEHISCENCE
dehiscence
(noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dehiscence (countable and uncountable, plural dehiscences)
(botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
(medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
(rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
Source: Wiktionary
De*his"cence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. déhiscence.]
1. The act of gaping.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AWRY
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