Definition of Acinos
||Ac"i*nus (&?;), n.; pl.
Acini (&?;). [L., grape, grapestone.] 1.
(Bot.) (a) One of the small grains or drupelets
which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
(b) A grapestone.
2. (Anat.) 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.
Quain.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Botany): One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (Botany): A grapestone.
- (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.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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