A dry fruit of certain kinds of tree, such as the ash and sycamore, having a thin membranous wing and usually growing in bunches. Cf. samara, n.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > indehiscent fruit or achene (12) key1440 A dry fruit of certain kinds of tree, such as the ash and sycamore, having a thin membranous wing and usually growing in bunches. Cf. samara, n. samara1577 The indehiscent winged fruit of the elm, ash, sycamore (etc.). achenium1819 = achene, n. achene1825 An indehiscent, dry, one-seeded fruit originating from a single carpel, such as the ‘seed’ of a sunflower or dandelion; = achenium, n. caryopsis1830 A small one-seeded dry indehiscent fruit, whose pericarp adheres to the seed throughout so as to form one body with it, as in wheat and other… key fruit1849 = sense A. 13. tetrachaenium1856 a fruit formed of four adherent achenes. cremocarp1861 A species of fructification, occurring in the Umbelliferæ, in which the simple inferior fruit divides into two indehiscent one-seeded mericarps… Cypsela1861 A kind of dry one-seeded fruit; an achene with an adnate calyx, as in the Compositæ. achaenocarp1874 = achene, n. triachaenium1882 a fruit composed of three achenes. pseudospermium1890 = caryopsis, n. |
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