Helen Fenton

Acerous: Definition and part of speech

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Acerous

  1. a. Without antennae, as some insects.
  2. a. Same as Acerose.
  3. a. Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acerose: Definition and part of speech

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Acerose

  1. a. Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
  2. a. Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Acerbity: Definition and part of speech

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Acerbity

  1. n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
  2. n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.