ACHENE


Meaning of ACHENE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈkēn ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin achaenium, from a- + Greek chainein to gape, yawn — more at yawn

Date: 1855

: a small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit (as of a sunflower) developing from a simple ovary and usually having a thin pericarp attached to the seed at only one point

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