Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Armed with prickles, as a plant.
- Belonging to the order Acanthaceæ; of the type of the acanthus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Armed with prickles, as a plant.
- adjective (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Armed with
prickles , as a plant.
Etymologies
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From New Latin Acanthaceae.
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