Acacia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various often spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia in the pea family, having alternate, bipinnately compound leaves or leaves represented by flattened leafstalks and heads or spikes of small flowers.
  • n. Any of several other leguminous plants, such as the rose acacia.
  • n. See gum arabic.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several related trees, such as the locust.
  • n. A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red. acacia colour:    
  • n. A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
  • n. A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
  • n. The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of shrubby or arboreous plants, natural order Leguminosæ, suborder Mimoseæ, natives of the warm regions of both hemispheres, especially of Australia and Africa.
  • n. A plant of the genus Acacia.
  • n. The popular name of several plants of other genera.
  • n. In medicine, the inspissated juice of several species of Acacia, popularly known as gum arabic (which see, under gum). A name given by antiquaries to an object resembling a roll of cloth, seen in the hands of consuls and emperors of the Lower Empire as represented on medals.
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  • n. any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
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