achene
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of achene
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
“The mulberry puts forth its messy clusters of achenes.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French achène and its source, New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”).
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