ACHENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does achene mean? 

• ACHENE (noun)
  The noun ACHENE has 1 sense:

1. small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall

  Familiarity information: ACHENE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACHENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("achene" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "achene"):

key; key fruit; samara (a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple)

Derivation:

achenial (pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit)