Achene

A small dry thin-walled fruit, not splitting when ripe, and containing a single seed.


Small, dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with tight, thin outer wall.


A small dry fruit containing a single seed (example: sunflower seed).


A dry, one-seeded fruit, without a predictable opening and formed from a single carpel, usually one of many, like an unshelled Sunflower seed.


Minute dry indehiscent fruit containing a particular seed.


A small dry fruit that does not split at maturity, containing a single seed that is attached to the ovary wall.


A dry, 1-seeded fruit with a tight fruit wall that does not split open but is not fused to the seed.


A kind of simple dry fruit (of flowering plants) formed by one carpel. Achenes do not split open when ripe.


A small, dry fruit that does not split open; one-seeded.


A one-seeded nutlet formed from a single carpel, shed in fruit without opening to release the seed.


A small, dry, indehiscent, 1-seeded fruit, typical of the Compositae and Cyperaceae families.


Fruit, often winged, whose covering does not open at maturity.


A small, dry, nutlike, one-seeded fruit that does not split open when ripe to release the seed; it may be winged (a samara).


 

 

 


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