0 (of a person) unwilling to obey orders or to do what should be done, or (of an animal) refusing to be controlled
1 unwilling to do what you are asked or ordered to do, even if it is reasonable:
Specific mechanisms associated with desiccation sensitivity of recalcitrant seeds are still not resolved.
At a practical level there are some encouraging results from attempts to extend the storage lifespan of some recalcitrant seeds.
Seeds of durian do contain storage proteins, and this is one of the first studies to explore storage protein deposition in this recalcitrant seed.
Recalcitrant seeds usually have no period of quiescence and germinate shortly after fruit abscission.
This school holds that recalcitrant problems in syntax and especially semantics should be given solutions found with the assistance of an independently motivated pragmatic theory.
He himself will not forget to claim his ' kola ' or rightful ' part ', as occurs when the potential donor seems distracted or recalcitrant.
Although recalcitrant seeds are common in mesic tropical forests, they are by no means confined to these systems.
Recalcitrant seeds cannot survive desiccation to the range of water contents where the longevity of orthodox seeds increases with decreasing water content.