Nouns

• Acanthaceae — Noun – English ～ widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
• acanthion — Noun – English ～ the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture
• acanthisitta — Noun – English ～ a genus of Xenicidae
• acanthisittidae — Noun – English ～ alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens
• Acanthocephala — Noun – English ～ phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms
• acanthocephalan — Noun – English ～ any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines
• Acanthocereus — Noun – English ～ mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region
• Acanthocybium — Noun – English ～ wahoos
• acanthocyte — Noun – English ～ an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm
• acanthocytosis — Noun – English ～ the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia)
• acantholysis — Noun – English ～ a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus)
• acanthoma — Noun – English ～ a neoplasm originating in the epidermis
• Acanthophis — Noun – English ～ Australian elapid snakes
• acanthopterygian — Noun – English ～ a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
• Acanthopterygii — Noun – English ～ teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays
• Acanthoscelides — Noun – English ～ a genus of Bruchidae
• acanthosis — Noun – English ～ an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis)
• Acanthuridae — Noun – English ～ surgeonfishes
• Acanthurus — Noun – English ～ type genus of the Acanthuridae: doctorfishes
• acanthus — Noun – English ～ any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

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