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Aculeous
Aculeous \A*cu"le*ous\, a.
Aculeate. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
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Wiktionary
aculeous
a. (context obsolete rare English) Pertaining to a needle.
Usage examples of "aculeous".
And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles, remarkably in the notable palisados about the flower of the milk Thistle.