Main Entry:

achene

Pronunciation:

\ə-ˈkēn\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

New Latin achaenium, from a- + Greek chainein to gape, yawn — more at yawn

Date:

1855

: a small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit (as of a sunflower) developing from a simple ovary and usually having a thin pericarp attached to the seed at only one point