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Acerose

Acerose Meaning & Definition
Acerose Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Acerose?

[adj] narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves

Synonyms | Synonyms for Acerose: acerate | acicular | needlelike | needle-shaped | pointed | simple | unsubdivided

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Acerose In Webster's Dictionary

\Ac"er*ose`\, a. [(a) L. acerosus chaffy, fr. acus, gen. aceris, chaff; (b) as if fr. L. acus needle: cf. F. ac['e]reux.] (Bot.) (a) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. (b) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

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