Achene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, dry, indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a thin wall, as in the sunflower.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. English form of achenium. Also spelled akene.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
    • Equivalent
    achenium   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fruit   
    Variant
    naked seed    akene    achænium   
    Hyponym
    Samara    key fruit    key   
     
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