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Definition of Achenium
1. achaenium [n ACHENIUMS or ACHENIA or ACHAENIA] - See also: achaenium
Medical Definition of Achenium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Achenium
Literary usage of Achenium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"culm triangular, slender; spikelets 3—6, nearly terminal; bristles 6, about twice
as long as the oblong-ovate compressed achenium ; tubercle lanceolate, ..."
2. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Ovaries 3 or many, with 1-2 anatropous or campylotropous erect ovules. Style short
or none. achenium coriaceous, 1 - 2-seeded. Embryo straight or curved, ..."
3. A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1880)
"A Utricle is the same as an achenium, but witk a thin and ... achenium of
Mayweed (no pappus). 292. That of Succory (its pappus a ihil- low cup). 293. ..."
4. Gray's lessons in botany and vegetable physiology by Asa Gray (1876)
"Upper part of flowering stem of R. Torreyana (1); a spike (2); detached flower (3);
achenium (4) with short bristles at its base; oi.e of these bristles ..."
5. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"2 ; style 2—3-cleft, deciduous ; achenium subglobose, the pericarp hard, ...
achenium nake« (without a perigynium), more or less hard and bony. 17. SCLERIA. ..."
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