Septifragal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Septifragal \Sep*tif"ra*gal\, a. [Septum + L. frangere, fractum,
     to break.] (Bot.)
     Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of
     dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the
     partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.
     [1913 Webster]