Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a small, dry and hard, one-celled, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit; strictly, a single and free carpel of this character, as in the buttercup, avens, etc., but extended to all similar fruits resulting from a compound ovary, even when invested with an adnate calyx, as in the order Compositæ. Also written
achene , achænium, akene, and akenium. - noun In entomology, a genus of beetles.
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- noun botany
achene
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SCAPIGERUM D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.] 1ST MARCH. —
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Habit of BRACHYSTEPHIUM SCAPIGERUM D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.] 1ST MARCH.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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