"aculeous" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more aculeous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most aculeous",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180",
          "text": "And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.",
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        }
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        "Resembling or pertaining to a needle."
      ],
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        "(Late Modern, obsolete) Resembling or pertaining to a needle."
      ],
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        "Modern",
        "obsolete"
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  "word": "aculeous"
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin aculeus (“needle”) + -ous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more aculeous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most aculeous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles.",
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        }
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        "Resembling or pertaining to a needle."
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        "(Late Modern, obsolete) Resembling or pertaining to a needle."
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        "obsolete"
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  "word": "aculeous"
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