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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
acanthus , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
acanthus .
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- noun
Acanthus .
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With the second earliest vertebrates, -- the ganoids of the Old Red Sandstone, -- we are more directly acquainted, and know that they exhibited the true typical form, -- a vertebral column terminating in a brain-protecting skull; and that, in at least the acanth, celacanth, and dipterian families, they had the limb-like fins.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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