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acinus

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun acinus has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

acinusn. [L., grape, grapestone.].
  •  One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

acinus, n. (pl. acini)
1 any of the small elements that make up a compound fruit of the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
2 the seed of a grape or berry.
3 Anat. a any multicellular gland with saclike secreting ducts. b the terminus of a duct in such a gland.

Etymology
L, = berry, kernel
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