Crossword clues for acacias
acacias
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acacia \A*ca"cia\, n.; pl. E. Acacias, L. Acaci[ae]. [L. from Gr. ?; orig. the name of a thorny tree found in Egypt; prob. fr. the root ak to be sharp. See Acute.]
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. Very few are found in temperate climates.
(Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of acacia English)
Wikipedia
Acacias is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia.
Usage examples of "acacias".
The castle which, like every Englishman, he inhabited was embedded in lilac bushes and laburnums, and was attached to another castle, embedded, in deference to our national dislike of uniformity, in acacias and laurustinus.
Round the house were acres of garden, with great clumps of willows and acacias, where the magpies sat in the heat of the day and sang to one another in their sweet, low warble.