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Achene

//əˈkiːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.

    "The mulberry puts forth its messy clusters of achenes."

  2. 2
    small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall wordnet

Etymology

From French achène and its source, New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”).

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