Acinus Definition

ăsə-nəs
acini
noun
One of the small sacs of a compound or racemose gland.
Webster's New World
One of the small saclike dilations composing a compound gland.
American Heritage Medicine

(botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

Wiktionary
(botany) A grape-stone.
Wiktionary

(anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. - Richard Quain.

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Other Word Forms of Acinus

Noun

Singular:
acinus
Plural:
acini

Origin of Acinus

  • From Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin berry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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AACACI

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SUSNUS

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