ACINUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

2.
n.

A grapestone.

3.
n.

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.