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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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