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- English Word Acantha Definition A spine or prickly fin.
- English Word Acantha Definition The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
- English Word Acanthaceous Definition Armed with prickles, as a plant.
- English Word Acanthaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
- English Word Acanthi Definition of Acanthus
- English Word Acanthine Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.
- English Word Acanthocarpous Definition Having the fruit covered with spines.
- English Word Acanthocephala Definition A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.
- English Word Acanthocephalous Definition Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
- English Word Acanthophorous Definition Spine-bearing.
- English Word Acanthopodious Definition Having spinous petioles.
- English Word Acanthopteri Definition A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
- English Word Acanthopterous Definition Spiny-winged.
- English Word Acanthopterous Definition Acanthopterygious.
- English Word Acanthopterygian Definition Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.
- English Word Acanthopterygian Definition A spiny-finned fish.
- English Word Acanthopterygii Definition An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
- English Word Acanthopterygious Definition Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.
- English Word Acanthus Definition A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
- English Word Acanthus Definition An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.