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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ey-keen, uh-keen |
| Phonetic Transcription : eɪˈkin, əˈkin |
Definition of achene
- As in nut : noun seed of fruit, vegetable
- Name from , a bug, and , resemblance; from the form of the achene.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- Calyx 6-parted or -cleft, colored, persistent about the achene.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- Fruit usually an achene, compressed or 3–4-angled or -winged.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- Compared with U. dioica, this achene is thinner and shorter.
- Extract from : « Seeds of Michigan Weeds » by W. J. (William James) Beal
- Achene triangular, pointed with the persistent base of the style.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- The nut or achene—a fruit with hard and dry walls, as the filbert and the acorn.
- Extract from : « Field and Woodland Plants » by William S. Furneaux
- The pappus consists of a tuft of simple hairs, most of which are longer than the achene.
- Extract from : « Field and Woodland Plants » by William S. Furneaux
- Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- Ovary 1-celled with a suspended ovule, becoming an achene; calyx none; aquatic herbs, with finely dissected whorled leaves.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
- Achene (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish closed calyx-tube.
- Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
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