achene
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a·chene
(ă-kēn') A small one-seeded fruit.
[G. a- priv., + chainō, to yawn]
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achene
a small, dry, INDEHISCENT, one-seeded fruit with a thin PERICARP seen, for example, on the surface of strawberry ‘fruits’. See Fig. 7 .Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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