Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a thorn or spine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spiny; spinous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective shaped like a spine or thorn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape of a
spine orthorn
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a spine or thorn
Etymologies
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acanth (“thorn”) + -oid (“resembling”)
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