aculeous
English
Etymology
Borrowed from
Latin
aculeus
.
Adjective
aculeous
(
comparative
more
aculeous
,
superlative
most
aculeous
)
(
obsolete
,
rare
)
Pertaining to a
needle
.
1658
, Sir Thomas Browne,
The Garden of Cyrus
(Folio Society 2007, p. 180)
And such an order is observed in the
aculeous
prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.
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