dissilience
— Noun
– English
~ the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe
dissilient
— Adjective
– English
~ bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels
dissimilar
— Adjective
– English
~ not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"
dissimilar
— Adjective
– English
~ not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
dissimilate
— Verb
– English
~ make dissimilar; cause to become less similar
dissimilate
— Verb
– English
~ become dissimilar or less similar; "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time"
dissimilate
— Verb
– English
~ become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities; "These consonants dissimilate"
dissimilation
— Noun
– English
~ breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
dissimilation
— Noun
– English
~ a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation"