Definition of Akenes

1. Noun. (plural of akene) ¹

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Definition of Akenes

1. akene [n] - See also: akene

Lexicographical Neighbors of Akenes

akdalaites
ake
akeake
akebia
aked
akedah
akedahs
akee
akee tree
akees
akela
akelas
akembe
aken
akene
akenes (current term)
akeni
akenned
akenness
akenning
akens
akepiro
akepiros
aker
akermanite
akes
akether
aketon
aketons

Literary usage of Akenes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1897)
"+- akenes slender-stipitate, dorsally gibbous, the ventral edge concave at maturity, ... Western species: akenes compressed but more or less tumid, ..."

2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"H akenes flattened parallel with the scales of the involucre and chaff of the receptacle, ... akenes oblong, obscurely 2- horned or notched at the apex. 43. ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"1—3, deep yellow; petals round-obovate, retuse: akenes turgid-lenticular, ... large, broadly obovate, glossy yellow: akenes compressed ,hairy on sides, ..."

4. The Flora of the Palouse Region: Containing Descriptions of All the by Charles Vancouver Piper, Rolla Kent Beattie (1901)
"... chaffy: pappus a pair of persistent awns or chaffy teeth, and a crown of intermediate thin chaffy scales: ray-akenes laterally compressed; ..."

5. Foundations of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1901)
"akenes truncate ; pappus double, of chaff and bristles. ... akenes flattened, beaked ; pappus soft, white, the hairs soon falling off separately ..."

6. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"1 is almost an Anemony, except for its ribbed akenes, and has a few handsome ... akenes many in a head, flat. # Petals white, with a round spot at the base ..."

7. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"FALSE CROMWELL—The akenes are the same as in the Bugloss. The corolla is tubular- shaped with the ... Generally the akenes contain a little stone. LUNGWORT. ..."

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