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- noun Plural form of
acanthus .
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Examples
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On a higher level grow broad-leaved acanthi and wild artichokes, and thick festoons of cactus hang down from the top of the rock and shade the entrances to the grottoes.
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Quid tibi odorato referam fudantia ligno Balfamaque, et baccas femper frondentis acanthi?
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Quid tibi odorato referam (udanda ligno BalAunaque, et baccas femper frondentis acanthi?
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstrata, a Chr. Gottl ... 1788
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