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- English Word Acephalist Definition One who acknowledges no head or superior.
- English Word Acephalocyst Definition A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
- English Word Acephalocystic Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Headless.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Without a leader or chief.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Wanting the beginning.
- English Word Acephalous Definition Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
- English Word Acerate Definition A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
- English Word Acerate Definition Acerose; needle-shaped.
- English Word Acerb Definition Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
- English Word Acerbate Definition To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
- English Word Acerbic Definition Sour or severe.
- English Word Acerbitude Definition Sourness and harshness.
- English Word Acerbity Definition Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
- English Word Acerbity Definition Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
- English Word Aceric Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
- English Word Acerose Definition Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
- English Word Acerose Definition Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.