"aculeus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 15:",
          "text": "Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms for their protection; these are either aculei, prickles, as in rose and barberry, which are formed from the outer bark of the plant; or spinæ, thorns […].",
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        "A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses."
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          "plant",
          "plant"
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          "bramble",
          "bramble"
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          "rose",
          "rose"
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        "(botany) A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses."
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          "sense": "prickle growing on the bark",
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          "sense": "prickle growing on the bark",
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      "word": "aculi"
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