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acinus

/ˈæsɪnəs/

acinus noun: one of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

Noun

acinus (plural acini)

  1. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
  2. A grape-stone.
  3. 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.
    • Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy

acinus meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Malay and Indonesian

acinus in Tamil

சுரப்பி நுண்அறை, திராட்சை விதை, பேரி விதை

acinus in Kannada

ಬುರುಡೆ, ತುದಿಬುರುಡೆ, ಸುರಿಗೆನೆರಿ

acinus in Malay

one of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland (anatomy)
asinus

acinus in Indonesian

one of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland (anatomy)
asinus

Forms of acinus

pluralacini

Origin of acinus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.

Words formed from acinus

Questions about acinus

What does acinus mean?
Acinus means one of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
What is acinus in Tamil?
Acinus in Tamil is சுரப்பி நுண்அறை, திராட்சை விதை, பேரி விதை. See Acinus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is acinus?
Acinus is a noun.
How do you pronounce acinus?
Acinus is pronounced /ˈæsɪnəs/.
What is the plural of acinus?
The plural of acinus is acini.

Words near acinus in the dictionary

  1. acinonodular
  2. acinose
  3. acinote
  4. acinotubular
  5. acinous
  6. acinus
  7. Acionna
  8. ACIP
  9. acipenserid
  10. acipenserids
  11. acipenseriform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acinus (page history and authors); acinus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acinus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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