Google
×
Any time
  • Any time
  • Past hour
  • Past 24 hours
  • Past week
  • Past month
  • Past year
Verbatim
Did you mean: Acanthaceae
1. having prickly growths. 2. belonging to the plant family Acanthaceae. Compare acanthus family. Most material ...
People also ask
adjective · having prickly growths. · belonging to the plant family Acanthaceae.
(botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.[First attested in the mid 18th century.] · Armed with prickles, as a plant.
The earliest known use of the adjective acanthaceous is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for acanthaceous is from 1738, in the writing of Ephraim ...
ac•an•tha•ceous USA pronunciation adj. Plant Biologyhaving prickly growths. Plant Biologybelonging to the plant family Acanthaceae. Cf. acanthus family.
The meaning of ACANTHACEAE is a family of widely distributed herbs, shrubs, and trees (order Polemoniales) having opposite leaves and tubular bracted ...
It's a thorny plant with spiky-shaped leaves (rather like big dandelion or thistle leaves, really). Its leaves are featured curling at the tops of Corinthian ...
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. (2):. (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant.
from The Century Dictionary. Armed with prickles, as a plant. Belonging to the order Acanthaceæ; of the type of the acanthus.
Find Acanthaceous stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.