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Definition of Achenia
1. achenium [n] - See also: achenium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Achenia
Literary usage of Achenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Involucre shorter than the flowers ; the scales closely imbricated in several rows.
Receptacle naked. achenia cylindrical, ribbed. ..."
2. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"achenia compressed. Pappus wanting, or of a few bristles. ... achenia terete,
short, strongly striate, crowned with 10 short and horny teeth, and bearing a ..."
3. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"Calyx with the 4 achenia and style. 4. Vertical section of one of the ... a short
tube and naked orifi« stigma cleft ; achenia tuberculate, imperforate. ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"Vertical section of one of the achenia, showing iho n-cd.en- ... with a short
tube and naked orifice; stigma cleft ; achenia tuberculate, imperforate. ..."
5. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"... as long as the calyx : heads of fruit globose : achenia roundish,
compressed-lenticular, tubercu- lated : style hooked : flowers yellow. ..."
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