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ACHENE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("achene" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "achene"):
key; key fruit; samara (a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple)
Derivation:
achenial (pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit)