Acaciae () of Acacia

Acacia () A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Acacia () The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Acacin () Alt. of Acacine

Acacine () Gum arabic.

Academe () An academy.

Academial () Academic.

Academian () A member of an academy, university, or college.

Academic () Alt. of Academical

Academical () Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

Academical () Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

Academic () One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academic () A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Academically () In an academical manner.

Academicals () The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Academician () A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

Academician () A collegian.

Academicism () A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

Academicism () A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Academism () The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

Academist () An Academic philosopher.

Academist () An academician.

Academies () of Academy

Academy () A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Academy () An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

Academy () A place of training; a school.

Academy () A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Academy () A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.

Acadian () Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

Acadian () A native of Acadie.

Acajou () The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

Acajou () The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

Acalephs () of Acalephan

Acalephans () of Acalephan

Acaleph () Alt. of Acalephan

Acalephan () One of the Acalephae.

Acalephae () A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

Acalephoid () Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.

Acalycine () Alt. of Acalysinous

Acalysinous () Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Acanth () Same as Acanthus.

Acantha () A prickle.

Acantha () A spine or prickly fin.

Acantha () The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

Acanthaceous () Armed with prickles, as a plant.

Acanthaceous () Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Acanthine () Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Acanthocarpous () Having the fruit covered with spines.

Acanthocephala () A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Acanthocephalous () Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

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