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Definition of Achaenium

1. a dry fruit which doesn't open when mature [n ACHAENIUMS or ACHAENIA]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Achaenium

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ace of hearts ace of spades ach Achaean achaenia achaenium (current term) achage achages Achaian achalasia

achalasia achalasias Achard-Thiers syndrome Achard syndrome acharne acharya acharyas achate achates achatina

Literary usage of Achaenium

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1. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... flowers of the circumference many-series, truncated or 2-3-toothed : of the disk few, cylindrical, 5-toothed : achaenium terete : pappus 1-series; ..."

2. Annales des sciences naturelles by Adolphe Brongniart, Antoine Guillemin, Joseph Decaisne, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Julien Costantin, Pierre Allorge, Louis Blaringhem (1838)
"achaenium ut in C. Davalliana sessile, ... parte supra achaenium vacua et ipso ... et achaenium ferè superans. ..."

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