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Definitions of achene in various dictionaries:
noun - small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
A small, dry, indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a thin wall, as in the sunflower.
adj - a type of fruit [n -S] : ACHENIAL
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| A small, dry, indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a thin wall, as in the sunflower. |
| a small, dry one-seeded fruit that does not open to release the seed. |
| small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall |
| A small, dry one-seeded fruit that does not open to release the seed. |
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| An achene (; Greek , a, privative + , chainein, to gape; also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp) is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not open at maturity). Achenes contain a single seed that nearly fills the pericarp, but does not adhere to it. In many species, what is called the "seed" is an achene, a fruit containing the seed. The seed-like appearance is owed to the hardening of the wall of the seed-vessel, which encloses the solitary seed so closely as to seem like an outer coat. |