Found 2 items, similar to acinus.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: acinus acinus n 1: one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry 2: one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland [also: acini (pl)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Acinus Acinus \Ac"i*nus\ ([a^]s"[i^]*n[u^]s), n.; pl. Acini. [L., grape, grapestone.] 1. (Bot.) (a) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. (b) A grapestone. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) 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. --Quain. [1913 Webster] ||