ACHENE


Meaning of ACHENE in English

[achene] n [NL achaenium, fr. a- + Gk chainein to yawn--more at yawn] (1855): a small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit (as of a sunflower) developing from a simple ovary and usu. having a thin pericarp attached to the seed at only one point

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