Achenes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 138 anagrams from letters in achenes (aceehns).
1835-45; New Latin achaenium, equivalent to a- a-6 + Greek chain- (stem of chaínein to gape) + Latin -ium -ium
The nut or achene—a fruit with hard and dry walls, as the filbert and the acorn.
achene (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish closed calyx-tube.
Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
Compared with U. dioica, this achene is thinner and shorter.
Name from , a bug, and , resemblance; from the form of the achene.
Calyx 6-parted or -cleft, colored, persistent about the achene.
achene triangular, pointed with the persistent base of the style.
Ovary 1-celled with a suspended ovule, becoming an achene; calyx none; aquatic herbs, with finely dissected whorled leaves.
Fruit usually an achene, compressed or 3–4-angled or -winged.
The pappus consists of a tuft of simple hairs, most of which are longer than the achene.