Dehisco

Latin-English

dĕhisc|ō, -ĕre, dĕhīvī, —. (deˈis.ko) v. intrans.

1. To come apart, to gape open.

[de + hisco.]

Loci

• αʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.50:

Acus sive belone unus piscium dehiscente propter multitudinem utero parit.

The pipefish (acus, or belone) is the one fish that gives birth by its womb splitting open, due to its great number [of young].