aculeous

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.

Adjective

aculeous (comparative more aculeous, superlative most aculeous)

1. (Late Modern, obsolete) Resembling or pertaining to a needle.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180:

     And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.

Anagrams

• Clouseau