Aculeus

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  • n. A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
  • n. A sting.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
  • n. A sting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The poison-sting of the aculeate hymenopterous insects, as bees, wasps, etc. See Aculeata.
  • n. In botany, a prickle; a slender, rigid, and pointed outgrowth from the bark or epidermis, as in the rose and blackberry, in distinction from a thorn, which grows from the wood.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect
  • n. a stiff sharp-pointed plant process
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stinger   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sting   
     
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