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acerose
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective acerose has 1 sense
- acerose(s = adj.all) acerate, acicular, needle-shaped - narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
acerose, a. [(a) L. acerosus chaffy, fr. acus, gen. aceris, chaff; (b) as if fr. L. acus needle: cf. F. acéreux.].
Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. [1913 Webster]
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