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A short song, in one or more parts.

Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. Monks abdicant of their orders. Whitlock.

Same as Acanthus.

A prickle.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Acanthopterygious.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

One versed in æsthetics.

Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.