ACHENE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)