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Answer for the clue "Blackberry, in botany ", 6 letters:
acinus

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland [also: acini (pl)]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An acinus (plural, acini ; adjective, acinar or acinous ) refers to any cluster of cells that resembles a many-lobed " berry ", such as a raspberry ( acinus is Latin for "berry"). The berry-shaped termination of an exocrine gland , where the secretion ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. 2 (context botany English) A grape-stone. 3 (context anatomy English) One of the granular masses which constitute a ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acinus \Ac"i*nus\ ([a^]s"[i^]*n[u^]s), n.; pl. Acini . [L., grape, grapestone.] (Bot.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. A grapestone. (Anat.) One of the granular masses which constitute ...

Usage examples of acinus.

Gelatinous or interacinous adenoma, which consists in an enlargement of the acini by an accumulation of colloid material, and an increase in the interacinous tissue by a growth of round cells.