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"Achene" Definition

noun

A small, dry, indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a thin wall, as in the sunflower.
A small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit (as of a sunflower) developing from a simple ovary and usually having a thin pericarp attached to the seed at only one point.

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