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Definition of Achenes
1. achene [n] - See also: achene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Achenes
Literary usage of Achenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"achenes flattened parallel to the chaff. Pappus-awns barbed ......... M. B4d*ne.
... Heads more than 1 crn. broad ; achenes not compressed ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"achenes merely subtended by the inner involucra! bracts. ... achenes flattened.
Ray-flowers in i series ; achenes adnate to 2 or 3 scales of the receptacle, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"A. Bracts (at least the outer series) not enclosing the achenes of the rays; ...
achenes not flattened; ligules in ours white; involucres of verv dissimilar ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Flowers purple; achenes ribbed; perennial or biennial with grass-like leaves 5.
... Receptacle with chaff-like bracts; at least the inner achenes beaked; ..."
5. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"achenes angled. 1. G. parviflora Cav. Spreading appressed-pubescent annual ...
Involucre of 2-5 small bracts. Ray usually one, fertile. achenes linear- ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"Iva, achenes short, thick. Involucre of few roundish scales. •»- -к Heads of two
sorts on the same plant, the upper staminate with an open ..."
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