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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n.名词 noun
- 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.
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