aculeous

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adjective

Resembling or pertaining to a needle.

OriginLatin aculeus →
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Meanings

adjectiveaculeous (comparative more aculeous, superlative most aculeous)

comparative more aculeous · superlative most aculeous

  1. LateModernobsoleteResembling or pertaining to a needle.

    And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.

    1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180

Origin

  1. Latinaculeus“needle”
  2. Englishaculeous

Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.

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Anagrams

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