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acerose

<botany> Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Origin: (a) L. Acerosus chaffy, fr. Acus, gen. Aceris, chaff; (b) as if fr. L. Acus needle: cf. F. Acereux.

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