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achene

/ey-keen, uh-keen/US // eɪˈkin, əˈkin //UK // (əˈkiːn) //

安琪儿,安琪拉,安琪尼,疼爱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.

  • Ovary 1-celled with a suspended ovule, becoming an achene; calyx none; aquatic herbs, with finely dissected whorled leaves.

  • Achene (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish closed calyx-tube.

  • Ovary with a single cell and ovule, tipped with a long laterally stigmatic style, maturing as an achene.

  • Achene obtusely triangular, partly 3-celled, enclosed in the indurated calyx.