aculeous
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.
Adjective edit
aculeous (comparative more aculeous, superlative most aculeous)
- (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.