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Acinus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One of the small saclike dilations composing a compound gland.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

n. A grape-stone.

n. 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. - Richard Quain.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

n. A grapestone.

n. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In botany: One of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate baccate fruit, as the blackberry, etc., or the contained stone or seed. See cut under Rubus. A grape-stone.

n. In anatomy: Formerly, the smallest lobule of a gland, Now, generally, the smallest saccular subdivision of an acinose gland, several of which subdivisions make up a lobule. Also called alveolus. A lobule of the liver.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland

n. one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry

Word Usage

"There are multiples of bronchioles that conduct air to the acinus, or small sac, which is the lung as we generally think of it."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sac drupelet

Variant

acini

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

grapestone