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Webster 1913 Edition

Achenium

{

A-chene′

,

A-che′ni-um

}

Noun.

[Gr.

ἀ

priv. + [GREEK] to gape.]

(Bot.)

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; – called a

naked seed

by the earlier botanists.

[Written also

akene

and

achænium

.]