(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:36:14

Ac"an*tha"ceous (#), a.

1.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

2. Bot.

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

 

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