Definitions for achenes

achenes a·chene

Spelling: [ey-keen, uh-keen]
IPA: /eɪˈkin, əˈkin/

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).

Definitions for achenes

noun

  1. any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit.

Origin of achenes

1835-45; New Latin achaenium, equivalent to a- a-6 + Greek chain- (stem of chaínein to gape) + Latin -ium -ium

Examples for achenes

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.

Word Value for achenes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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