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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acinus \Ac"i*nus\ ([a^]s"[i^]*n[u^]s), n.; pl. Acini. [L., grape, grapestone.] 1. (Bot.) (a) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. (b) A grapestone. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. --Quain. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acinus n 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