dissilient

[dih-sil-ee-uhnt]

dis·sil·i·ent

[dih-sil-ee-uhnt]
adjective
bursting apart; bursting open.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin dissilient- (stem of dissiliēns, present participle of dissilīre to leap apart), equivalent to dis- dis-1 + -sili- (combining form of sali- leap; see sally) + -ent- -ent

dis·sil·i·en·cy, dis·sil·i·ence, noun
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Dissilient is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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dissilient

adjective
bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels 
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