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Webster 1913 Edition

Acerose

Ac′er-oseˊ

,

Adj.

[(a) L.

acerosus

chaffy, fr.

acus

, gen.

aceris

, chaff; (b) as if fr. L.

acus

needle: cf. F.

acéreux

.]

(Bot.)

(a)

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

(b)

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.