Achene

ACHENE (ay-keen’). A small, dry, hard, one-seeded fruit with no fissure or “valve” along which it opens. An example is the tiny seed of a strawberry, many of which are embedded in the fleshy edible part that is actually the swollen receptacle of the flower.

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