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Definition: Acacia |
AcaciaNoun1. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Acacia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a thorn". |
Date "acacia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Acacia \A*ca"cia\, noun; plural English Acacias, Latin Acaci[ae]. [Latin from Greek; orig. the name of a thorny tree found in Egypt; probably from the root ak to be sharp. See Acute.]. (references) |
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Bible | Acacia (Heb. shittim) Ex. 25:5, R.V. probably the Acacia seyal (the gum-arabic tree); called the "shittah" tree (Isa. 41:19). Its wood is called shittim wood (Ex. 26:15,26; 25:10,13,23,28, etc.). This species (A. seyal) is like the hawthorn, a gnarled and thorny tree. It yields the gum-arabic of commerce. It is found in abundance in the Sinaitic peninsula. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Water soluble gum obtained from trees of the acacia species as an exudation from the bark. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Any leguminous woody vine or tree of the genus Acacia, also called locust or wattle. The gums and tanning agents obtained from Acacia are called gum arabic. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Acacia tree in Thailand Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees of Gondwanian origin belonging to the family Leguminosae and the sub-family Mimosoideae, first described from African examples by Linnaeus 1n 1773. There are roughly 1300 species worldwide: about 950 of them being native to Australia, while the balance is spread around the Southern Hemisphere, including Africa, India and southern Asia, and the Americas.
The small flowers are arranged in rounded or elongated clusters. The leaves are compound pinnate in general (see fig.). In some instances, however, more especially in the Australian species, the leaflets are suppressed and the leaf-stalks become vertically flattened, and serve the purpose of leaves. The vertical position protects the structure from the intense sunlight, as with their edges towards the sky and earth they do not intercept light so fully as ordinary horizontally placed leaves.
Various species yield gum. True gum arabic is the product of Acacia senegal, abundant in both east and west tropical Africa. Acacia arabica is the gum-arabic tree of India, but yields a gum inferior to the true gum-arabic.
An astringent medicine, called catechu or cutch, is procured from several species, but more especially from Acacia catechu, by boiling down the wood and evaporating the solution so as to get an extract.
The bark of Acacia arabica, under the name of babul or babool, is used in Scinde for tanning. In Ayurvedic medicine, babul is considered a remedy that is helpful for treating premature ejaculation. The bark of various Australian species, known as wattles, is also very rich in tannin and forms an important article of export. Such are Acacia pycnantha, golden wattle, A. decurrens, tan wattle, and A. dealbata, silver wattle. The pods of Acacia nilotica, under the name of neb-neb, and of other African species is rich in tannin and used by tanners. The seeds of Acacia niopo are roasted and used as snuff in South America.
Some species afford valuable timber; such are Acacia melanoxylon, black wood of Australia, which attains a great size; its wood is used for furniture, and takes a high polish; and Acacia homalophylla (also Australian), myall wood, which yields a fragrant timber, used for ornamental purposes. Acacia formosa supplies the valuable Cuba timber called sabicu. Acacia seyal is supposed to be the shittah tree of the Bible, which supplied shittim-wood. Acacia heterophylla, from Mauritius and Bourbon, and Acacia koa from Hawaii are also good timber trees.
The plants often bear spines, especially those growing in arid districts in Australia or tropical and South Africa. These sometimes represent branches which have become short, hard and pungent, or sometimes leaf-stipules. Acacia armata is the kangaroo-thorn of Australia, A. giraffae, the African camelthorn. In the Central American Acacia sphaerocephala (bullthorn acacia) and A. spadicigera, the large thorn-like stipules are hollow and afford shelter for ants, which feed on a secretion of honey on the leaf-stalk and curious food-bodies at the tips of the leaflets; in return they protect the plant against leaf-cutting insects.
In common language the term Acacia is often applied to species of the genus Robinia which belongs also to the Leguminous family, but is placed in a different section. Robinia pseud-acacia, or false acacia, is cultivated in the milder parts of Europe and the North American continent, and forms a large tree, with beautiful pea-like blossoms. The tree is sometimes called the locust tree.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acacia."
Crosswords: Acacia |
| English words defined with "acacia": Acacia cambegei, Acacia melanoxylon, Acaciae, Acacias ♦ Bablah, black catechu ♦ catechu ♦ genus Leucaena, gidgee, gum acacia, gum arabic ♦ Leucaena, lightwood ♦ Mimotannic, Myall wood ♦ stinking wattle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acacia": arabic gum ♦ dark cutch ♦ Gopher-wood ♦ HEDEOMA AFF PULEGIOIDES, HEDYOSMUM MEXICANUM ♦ pegu cutch, printer's asthma, printers'asthma. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Acacia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (acacia), French (acacia, wattle), Italian (acacia), Latin (acacia, Carnezuelo, Sweet acacia), Spanish (acacia). |
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Screenplays | This is 29 Acacia Road (Bananaman; writing credit: Luigi Malerba) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Acacia Montero (1964) 29 Acacia Avenue (1945) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building. Air raid stage display, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Avenue of acacia trees leading from Cairo to the Pyramids. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Black Cat" by Ralph Spegel Commentary: "Black cat in acacia tree." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Other U.S.-based solutions and IT hardware developers with practises dedicated to the health care market in Australia include Acacia Technologies, Data General/EMC, Eastman Software (web-enabling document management/business re-engineering solutions), Cognos, GEAC Computers, IMB, SPSS, Seagate, 3M, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | The Acacia Fund is a private equity fund which makes equity or equity related investments in private sector Kenyan companies. (references) |
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| "Acacia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.79% of the time. "Acacia" is used about 43 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) | 62.79% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.21% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Acacia Research Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "acacia": Acacia Adansonii ♦ acacia Arabica ♦ acacia auriculiformis ♦ acacia cambegei ♦ Acacia catechu ♦ Acacia colletioides ♦ acacia dealbata ♦ Acacia Doratoxylon ♦ Acacia Farnesiana ♦ Acacia homolophylla ♦ acacia melanoxylon ♦ acacia pycnantha ♦ Acacia Seyal ♦ Acacia spadicigera ♦ acacia tree ♦ Acacia vera ♦ Acacia Verek ♦ acacia xanthophloea ♦ false acacia ♦ genus Acacia ♦ gum acacia ♦ rose acacia ♦ San Acacia ♦ South American acacia ♦ sweet acacia. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "acacia": acacia-wood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "acacia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | akasia. (various references) | |
Albanian | akacie, ferrëdet. (various references) | |
Arabic | سنط صمغ الشجر, صمغ عربى, أقاقيا نبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | акация. (various references) | |
Chinese | 金合欢 (Acacias). (various references) | |
Czech | akát. (various references) | |
Danish | akacie. (various references) | |
Dutch | acacia. (various references) | |
Esperanto | akacio. (various references) | |
Finnish | akasia, akaasia. (various references) | |
French | acacia. (various references) | |
German | Akazie (acacia tree). (various references) | |
Greek | ακακία (accia, lack of malice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | akác (wattle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | akasia. (various references) | |
Italian | acacia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アラビアゴムの木 (Arabian light), アウム真理教 (academia, academy, account, accountability, accounting, Aeroflot, Aum Shinrikyou religious group, aura, owl). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アラビアゴムのき, アカシア . (various references) | |
Korean | 아카시아 (Acacias). (various references) | |
Manx | acaashey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acaciaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acácia. (various references) | |
Romanian | salcâm (locust). (various references) | |
Russian | акация. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | akacija, bagrem. (various references) | |
Spanish | acacia. (various references) | |
Swedish | akacia. (various references) | |
Turkish | akasya (locust, locust tree, myall, sallee). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | акція (action, move, share). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | akakia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acacia, acanthus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 41, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Qhsw eiV thn anudron ghn kedron kai puxon kai mursinhn kai kuparisson kai leukhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dabo in solitudine cedrum et spinam et myrtum et lignum olivae ponam in deserto abietem ulmum et buxum simul |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | I shal yyue in wildernesse ceder, and thorne, and myrt tree, and oliue tree; I shal sette in desert fyrr tree, and vlm tree, and box togidere. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together: |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 41, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Ako magabutang sa kamingawan sa cedro, sa acacia, ug sa arrayan, ug sa oliva; ibutang ko sa kamingawan ang hayas, ang olmos, ug ang alamos nga magtipon. |
| Croatian | Posadit æu u pustinji cedar, bagrem, mirtu i maslinu. Stepu æu pošumiti èempresom, brijestom i šimširom zajedno. |
| Danish | I Ørkenen giver jeg Cedre, Akacier, Myrter, Oliven; i Ødemark sætter jeg Cypresser tillige med Elm og Gran, |
| Dutch | Ik zal in de woestijn den cederboom, den sittimboom, en den mirteboom, en den olieachtigen boom zetten; Ik zal in de wildernis stellen den denneboom, den beuk, en den busboom te gelijk; |
| Finnish | Minä kasvatan erämaahan setripuita, akasioita, myrttejä ja öljypuita; minä istutan arolle kypressejä, jalavia ynnä hopeakuusia, |
| French | Je mettrai dans le désert le cèdre, l`acacia, Le myrte et l`olivier; Je mettrai dans les lieux stériles Le cyprès, l`orme et le buis, tous ensemble; |
| German | ich will in der Wüste geben Zedern, Akazien, Myrten und Kiefern; ich will dem Gefilde geben Tannen, Buchen und Buchsbaum miteinander, |
| Hungarian | A pusztában czédrust, akáczot nevelek és mirtust és olajfát, plántálok a kietlenben cziprust, platánt, sudarczédrussal együtt, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Padang gurun akan Kutanami pohon cemara, pohon zaitun, pohon murad dan pohon akasia. Padang belantara akan Kujadikan hutan, hutan eru, berangan dan cemara. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Di padang belantara akan Kutanam pohon araz dan pohon sitim dan pohon murd dan pohon zait; di tempat sunyi akan Kutaruh pohon senobar dan pohon dardar dan pohon syamsyad bersama-sama; |
| Maori | Ka whakatokia e ahau te koraha ki te hita, ki te kowhai, ki te ramarama, ki te rakau hinu; ka tu i ahau te kauri ki te titohea, te rimu, ratou tahi ano ko te ake. |
| Norwegian | Jeg vil la sedrer, akasier, myrter og oljetrær vokse frem i ørkenen; jeg vil la cypress, lønn og buksbom sammen gro på den øde mark, |
| Portuguese | Plantarei no deserto o cedro, a acácia, a murta, e a oliveira; e porei no ermo juntamente a faia, o olmeiro e o buxo; |
| Rumanian | voi sqdi cedri, salckmi, miryi wi mqslini kn pustie; voi pune chiparowi, ulmi, wi meriwori turcewti la un loc kn pustie, |
| Russian | РПУБЦХ Ч РХУФЩОЕ ЛЕДТ, УЙФФЙН Й НЙТФХ Й НБУМЙОХ; ОБУБЦХ Ч УФЕРЙ ЛЙРБТЙУ, СЧПТ Й ВХЛ ЧНЕУФЕ, |
| Swedish | Och jag skall låta cedrar och akacieträd växa upp i öknen jämte myrten och olivträd och skall på hedmarken plantera cypress tillsammans med alm och buxbom, |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "acacia": acacias. (additional references) | |
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"Acacia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacc, Abacaba, Abacada, Acace, Acak, acca, acci, Accis, acicia, Adamiya, Akafia, akakia, akaky, Akasaka, Akawi, Alacio, Alashiya, Alcmaria, arancia, Asakusa, Ascanio, caccia, cacia, Capachica, ectasia, Escocia, Marcaccio, Massacio, Natascia, Scaccia, Sciascia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acacia" (pronounced ukā"shu) |
| 3 | -ā" sh u | geisha, modernization. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-i" | |
-2 letters: caca. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-i" | |
+1 letter: acacias. | |
+2 letters: calcaria. | |
+3 letters: ataractic, catalatic. | |
+4 letters: academical, acaricidal, anarchical, ataractics, capacitate, cascarilla, paratactic. | |
+5 letters: academician, acatalectic, acclamation, archaically, autarchical, bacchanalia, canalicular, capacitance, capacitated, capacitates, carcinomata, caricatural, cascarillas, ipecacuanha, parallactic, tachycardia. | |
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