Acinus

Definitions: Acinus

Acinus

Noun

1. One of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry.

2. One of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland.

Etymology: Acinus \Ac"i*nus\, noun; plural Acini. [Latin expression, grape, grapestone.]. (Websters 1913)

"Acinus" is a common misspelling or typo for: actins, animus, casinos, echinus.

Domain	Definitions
Health	The berrylike ending of a tiny airway in the lung, where the alveoli (air sacs) are located. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Acinus

English words defined with "acinus": Acini. (references)

Etymologies containing "acinus": Acinaceous, Aciniform ♦ Exacinate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Acinus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (aciniform), Latin (grape, ivyberry or other small berry, pip, pit, seed).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is also marked by the appearance of the primitive acinus, the future lung tissue responsible for gas exchange. (references)
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"Acinus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acinus" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

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Language		Translations for "acinus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		acinus. (various references)

Dutch		acinus, druif (berry, grape, trunnion). (various references)

French		acinus (aciniform). (various references)

German		Acinus. (various references)

Greek		κυψέλη αδένος, λόβιο μικτού αδένος. (various references)

Italian		acino (berry, grape). (various references)

Pig Latin		acinusay

Portuguese		ácino. (various references)

Romanian		acin. (various references)

Spanish		acín, a/cino, ácino. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "acinus" (pronounced 'Ac"i*nus'): Agnus, Alumnus, Anelectrotonus, Anthrenus, Anus, Bonus, Catelectrotonus, Cincinnus, Clarisonus, Clonus, Conus, Cothurnus, Cygnus, Dictamnus, Dominus, Echinus, Electrotonus, Encrinus, Eridanus, Faunus, Fraxinus, Galvanotonus, genus, Hemionus, Janus, Marbrinus, Oceanus, Onus, Pandanus, Pannus, Pentacrinus, Pignus, Pinus, Platanus, Pleurothotonus, Ricinus, subgenus, Tabanus, tetanus, Thermotonus, tonus, Turnus, Uncinus, Uranus, Varanus, Venus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: cains, incus, unais, uncia.
	-2 letters: ains, anis, anus, asci, cain, cans, sain, scan, unai, unci.
	-3 letters: ain, ais, ani, can, cis, ins, nus, sac, sau, sic, sin, sun, uns.
	-4 letters: ai, an, as, in, is, na, nu, si, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: acinous, causing, saucing, uncials, vicunas.
	+2 letters: accusing, anchusin, auctions, banausic, cautions, cislunar, coquinas, craniums, crucians, cumarins, curtains, eucaines, issuance, lunacies, lunatics, musician, nuisance, panicums, quantics, scandium, sultanic, tsunamic, uncasing, unchains, unifaces, unsocial, vicugnas.
	+3 letters: aconitums, acquaints, actiniums, anacrusis, anchusins, audiences, callusing, calumnies, campusing, capsuling, capuchins, carousing, casuarina, caucusing, caulkings, causation, cinquains, conquians, coumarins, countians, cousinage, crusading, curarines, custodian, dulcianas, dulcineas, encaustic, faunistic, franciums, guidances, incubates, insurance, issuances, jaundices, manicures, masculine, muscadine, muscarine, musicians, narcissus, nuisances, picayunes, piquances, publicans, puissance, quicksand, sauciness, scandiums, succinate, suctional, suctorian, surfacing, tenacious, truancies, tunicates, unceasing, univocals, unmusical, upcasting, upscaling, urticants, vinaceous, vulcanise, vulcanism.
	+4 letters: abductions, accusation, accusingly, actuations, adductions, anilinctus, ascogonium, austenitic, binoculars, buoyancies, caliginous, callousing, calumnious, casuarinas, caucussing, causations, centauries, chauvinism, chauvinist, clinquants, coassuming, contagious, cousinages, cuirassing, culminates, custodians, cystinuria, discussant, educations, encaustics, enunciates, epicureans, euthanasic, funiculars, furcations, humanistic, hurricanes, incautions, incautious, incubators, inculcates, inculpates, incunables, incurables, incurvates, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, insouciant, insurances, jubilances, lacustrine, lubricants, luminances, manicurist, manuscript, masculines, mendacious, municipals, muscadines, muscarines, muscarinic, musicianly, naumachias, naumachies, naviculars, nonmusical, numeracies, numismatic, osculating, osculation, paunchiest, picayunish, piquancies, pugnacious, puissances, purchasing, quicksands, quittances, raunchiest, reaccusing, staunching, subcabinet, subclavian, suboceanic, succinates, suctorians, suppliance, supplicant, surceasing, surfacings, survivance, ultrasonic, unactorish, unartistic, uncanniest, unchastity, unclasping, ungracious, unsociable, unsociably, unsocially, unstacking, urbanistic, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanisms, vulcanizes.
	+5 letters: accountings, accusations, accustoming, acoustician, acquiescent, acquiescing, acquisition, acrimonious, adjunctions, adjutancies, aeronautics, affluencies, allocutions, ambuscading, animalcules, annunciates, antimusical, antisuicide, arenicolous, astronautic, auctioneers, beauticians, buccinators, calmodulins, calumniates, canaliculus, cappuccinos, capsulizing, carburising, carnivorous, causewaying, chauvinisms, chauvinists, chinquapins, coatimundis, coinsurance, communalism, communalist, confusional, consanguine, continuants, contrarious, contumacies, copulations, cornucopias, coruscating, coruscation, culinarians, cumulations, cunctations, curtainless, cuspidation, cystinurias, daunomycins, decussating, decussation, dicoumarins, discussants, disturbance, encapsuling, enunciators, eructations, evacuations, exultancies, farinaceous, fricandeaus, fungistatic, gesticulant, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, impuissance, incubations, inculcators, inductances, inexcusable, inexcusably, inoculators, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, inscrutably, insouciance, instinctual, intercampus, lawrenciums, luxuriances, maculations, manicurists, manuscripts, masculinely, masculinise, masculinist, masculinity, masculinize, microfaunas, misguidance, monochasium, narcissuses, nonmusician, nonsurgical, novaculites, nucleations, nudibranchs, numismatics, nunciatures, obfuscating, obfuscation, obscurantic, obscuration, occupancies, occupations, oceanariums, osculations, outclassing, outdistance, oversaucing, pancratiums, paunchiness, peculations, petulancies, precautions, pugnacities, punctations, quinacrines, raunchiness, reacquaints, recusancies, reinsurance, renunciates, republicans, resurfacing, rusticating, rustication, sacculation, sanctuaries, saucinesses, saurischian, scrummaging, speculating, speculation, spiculation, subacidness, subagencies, subclassing, subclavians, subclinical, subtracting, subtraction, suffocating, suffocation, suppliances, supplicants, surcharging, survivances, tenaciously, transducing, transuranic, truncations, ulcerations, ultrasonics, unaesthetic, uncanniness, unceasingly, unchristian, unclarities, unclassical, unmalicious, unmasculine, unrealistic, unshackling, uppercasing, urtications, vouchsafing, vulcanisate, vulcanising, vulcanizers.
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