1) British rock music group 2) Commonly thorny tree 3) Decorative tree 4) Flame tree 5) Flower 6) Flower or locust tree 7) Flowering plant 8) Flowering shrub 9) Flowering tree 10) Garden plant 11) Greek girl name 12) Greenish-yellow hue 13) Gum arabic 14) Gum arabic source 15) Gum arabic tree 16) Gum arabic-yielding tree
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Acacia (ə or ə), known commonly as acacia, thorntree, whistling thorn, or wattle, is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773 based on the African species Acacia nilotica. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority o...
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[fraternity] Acacia Fraternity (Ακακία) is a social fraternity founded at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The fraternity has 39 active chapters and 4 colonies throughout Canada and the United States. Membership was originally restricted to those who had taken the Masonic obligations, but in 1988, the fr...
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• (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. • (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of Amer...
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any of about 800 species of trees and shrubs comprising a genus (Acacia) in the mimosa family (Mimosaceae) and native to tropical and subtropical ... [11 related articles]
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(Thorntree, Wattle, Yellow-Fever Acacia, Umbrella Acacia, Mimosa, Sensitive Plant, Silver Wattle, Coastal Myall) This group consists of about 1,000 species that are found in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Australia and Africa. These evergreens should not be confused with the trees and shrubs commonly known as acacia, which belon...
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Origin: L. From Gr.; orig. The name of a thorny tree found in Egypt; prob. Fr. The root ak to be sharp. See Acute. ... 1. A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Ve...
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Very durable, whitish-yellow wood with brown veining, also known as robinia. Acacia was used as a veneer in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as a decorative crossbanding on 18th and early 19thC country furniture, and occasionally for chairs and small cabinet work such as boxes in the ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT of the late 19thC.
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A·ca'cia noun ;
plural English
Acacias Latin
Acaciæ [ Latin from Greek ...; orig. the name of a thorny tree found in Egypt; probably from the root
ak to be sharp. See
Acute .]
1. A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or P...
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A·ca'ci·a noun (Antiq.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-kā′shē-ă Definitions: 1. The dried gummy exudation from Acacia senegal and other species of Acacia (family Leguminosae), prepared as a mucilage and syrup; used as an emollient, demulcent excipient, and suspending agent in pharmaceuticals and foods; formerly used as a transfusion fluid. Synonyms:...
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the acacia tree, the blossoms of which are used for making fritters; also honey made from the blossom.
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Acacia is a genus of plants of the family Leguminosae sub-family Mimoseae consisting of trees or shrubs with compound pinnate leaves. They grow in Africa, Arabia, Australia and the East Indies. The flowers, usually small, are arranged in spikes or globular heads at the axils of the leaves near the extremity of the branches. The corolla is bell or f...
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[
n] - any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
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A durable wood used for palings and posts. A lot of the gums in common use are obtained from varieties of the Acacia.
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noun any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
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Any of a large group of shrubs and trees that includes the thorn trees of the African savannah and the gum arabic tree (
Acacia senegal) of North Africa, and several North American species of the southwestern USA and Mexico. The hardy tree commonly known as acacia is the false acaci...
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Deciduous trees in the genus Acacia. In Africa these are thorny, with bipinnately compound leaves (each leaf is again divided into small leaflets) and small powderpuff
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a large shrub or tree with thorns found in warm regions
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a small tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia, of the mimosa family, having clusters of small yellow flowers. · any of several other plants, as the locust tree. · See
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Acacia is a Greek name for girls. The meaning is `Acacia (Plant)` The name Acacia is most commonly given to English and Welsh girls. (2 times more often than to American girls.) Acacia is given to boys and girls in the Netherlands The name sounds like: Agacia, Agace, Akosia
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