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akene
any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit. -
buckwheat family
the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed. -
cypsela
the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath -
pappus
a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle. -
strawberry
the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.