Achene is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 59 anagrams from letters in achene (aceehn).
1835-45; New Latin achaenium, equivalent to a- a-6 + Greek chain- (stem of chaínein to gape) + Latin -ium -ium
Name from , a bug, and , resemblance; from the form of the achene.
The pappus consists of a tuft of simple hairs, most of which are longer than the achene.
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.
Calyx 6-parted or -cleft, colored, persistent about the achene.
Compared with U. dioica, this achene is thinner and shorter.
Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
achene triangular, pointed with the persistent base of the style.
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.