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  • English Word Academist Definition An academician.
  • English Word Academy Definition A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
  • English Word Academy Definition An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
  • English Word Academy Definition A place of training; a school.
  • English Word Academy Definition A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
  • English Word Academy Definition A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
  • English Word Acadian Definition Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
  • English Word Acadian Definition A native of Acadie.
  • English Word Acajou Definition The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.
  • English Word Acajou Definition The mahogany tree; also, its timber.
  • English Word Acaleph Definition Alt. of Acalephan
  • English Word Acalephae Definition A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.
  • English Word Acalephan Definition One of the Acalephae.
  • English Word Acalephans Definition of Acalephan
  • English Word Acalephoid Definition Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes.
  • English Word Acalephs Definition of Acalephan
  • English Word Acalycine Definition Alt. of Acalysinous
  • English Word Acalysinous Definition Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.
  • English Word Acanth Definition Same as Acanthus.
  • English Word Acantha Definition A prickle.
  • English Word Acantha Definition A spine or prickly fin.
  • English Word Acantha Definition The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
  • English Word Acanthaceous Definition Armed with prickles, as a plant.
  • English Word Acanthaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
  • English Word Acanthi Definition of Acanthus
  • English Word Acanthine Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.
  • English Word Acanthocarpous Definition Having the fruit covered with spines.
  • English Word Acanthocephala Definition A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.
  • English Word Acanthocephalous Definition Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
  • English Word Acanthophorous Definition Spine-bearing.