adjective
- splitting open along the back of each compartment of a seed pod or fruit
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The loculicidal capsule split open to release its seeds.
- Botanists identified the fruit as having loculicidal dehiscence.
- The plant’s loculicidal pods opened along predictable lines.
- Students examined loculicidal seed dispersal under microscopes.
- The loculicidal mechanism allows efficient seed distribution.