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a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit that usually possesses a woody wall
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Hello,
What does 'woody wall' mean in respect to nuts?
 

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I learnt a new word today - indehiscent.
 
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Me, too.

That's why nutcrackers were invented.
 

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In medicine, the term "dehiscence" is used to describe the splitting open of a surgical wound.
 

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Not a doctor/vet.

I have been known to split an infinitive, but never to split open a surgical wound, which probably explains my unfamiliarity with the word.
 

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Splitting an infinitive causes fewer problems. :lol:
 

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I am not a teacher.

To boldly dehisce where no nut has dehisced before.
 

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...or with nutcrackers (ouch!)
 
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