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Meaning of "achenes"

Achenes is a noun referring to a type of dry, one-seeded fruit
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  • plural of achene

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The fruits are long achenes borne in a cluster.
The flowers have one carpel achenes.
The seeds are achenes and are somewhat hairy.
The fruit is a spherical cluster of achenes nutlets.
Its achenes on the surface facilitate its collection.
The fruits are small achenes of two types.
The fruits are small green or brown achenes.
The achenes develop in a cylindrical head.
These give rise to small oblong achenes.
The achenes are grayish brown.
The fruit consists of one to four drupelets or achenes.
Many achenes drop into the soil seed bank.
The fruits are in the form of achenes.
The fruits are achenes with threefold sharp edges.
The fruits are small obovate achenes.

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Achenes glabrous or sparsely pilose.
Fruit and seed are achenes.
The fruits are dry achenes only a few millimeters long.
The seeds are cylindrical achenes.
The fruits are glabrous achenes with hairy appendages pappus.
The fruit is a cluster of dry achenes.
The fruit is a cluster of achenes covered with long hairs.
The fruits are yellowish cylindrical achenes.
Germination requirements of the achenes also changed after dispersal.
Pappus bristles are finely toothed and twice as long as achenes.
Capitula produce dimorphic achenes that are dispersed at different times.
The fruits are brown achenes.
Seeds are small achenes each with a pappus and are distributed by wind.
Most heads produce numerous ripe achenes at maturity.
It has achenes as fruit.
Some are technically achenes.
Achenes ripen and are shed within two weeks of the start of bloom.
The fruits are hairy achenes.
Inner and outer achenes in one flower head are normally similar in weight.
The fruits are wingless achenes.
The fruits are in the form of achenes with broadly winged margins.
The achenes are beaked and some species have feathery hairs attached to them.
These are followed by small achenes with hairy bristles.
The fruits are achenes each about half a centimeter long tipped with a pappus of scales.
Fruits are hooked achenes.
Outer achenes may also contain larger quantities of phenolic compounds than inner achenes.
Fruit are achenes.
Achenes collected from different flower heads on one plant usually vary significantly in weight.
Taller plants as a group had slightly heavier achenes than shorter plants.
Plants produced by peripheral achenes had a significantly greater size than those from central achenes.
The non-fleshy fruits are follicles or achenes.
It can distinguished by its mottled black achenes having a rounded bulge just below the peak.
Achenes sometimes densely, sometimes sparsely hairy.
The fruit produced by the flowers are lenticular achenes and are enclosed by the calyx.
Nonplumed achenes peaked after rains began, then declined.

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