acacia

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1. Any of various often spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia in the pea family, having alternate, bipinnately compound leaves or leaves represented by flattened leafstalks and heads or spikes of small flowers.

2. Any of several other leguminous plants, such as the rose acacia.

3. See gum arabic.

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek akakia.]

acacia [əˈkeɪʃə]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any shrub or tree of the tropical and subtropical leguminous genus Acacia, having compound or reduced leaves and small yellow or white flowers in dense inflorescences See also wattle [4]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants)

false acacia another name for locust [2] [3]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants)

gum acacia another name for gum arabic

[from Latin, from Greek akakia, perhaps related to akē point]

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Noun

acacia - any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia

genus Acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa

shittah, shittah tree - source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia

wattle - any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle

Acacia catechu, catechu, Jerusalem thorn - East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu

huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle, Acacia farnesiana, cassie, flame tree - tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery

Acacia xanthophloea, fever tree - African tree supposed to mark healthful regions

tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

gum acacia, gum arabic - gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)

Translations

acacia [əˈkeɪʃə] N → acacia f

acacia [əˈkeɪʃə] n (also acacia tree) → acacia m

acacia

n (also acacia tree) → Akazie f

acacia [əˈkeɪʃə] n (acacias or acacia (pl)) → acacia

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Acacia auriculiformis Acacia cambegei Acacia catechu Acacia dealbata Acacia farnesiana Acacia melanoxylon Acacia pycnantha Acacia xanthophloea black catechu cassie catechu fever tree flame tree genus Acacia gidgee golden wattle gum acacia gum arabic huisache	And the poor soldier went to the acacia; but when he was a few steps from it, the countess looked at him, as if defying him, although a slight expression of fear seemed to flicker in her eye; then, with a single bound she sprang from the acacia to a laburnum, and thence to a Norway fir, where she darted from branch to branch with extraordinary agility. Adieu by de Balzac, Honore View in context It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices. Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context The water was quite free from reptiles, and the vegetation upon the banks of the river had altered to more open and parklike forest, with eucalyptus and acacia mingled with a scattering of tree ferns, as though two distinct periods of geologic time had overlapped and merged. The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context	Aby Moritz Warburg Aby Warburg Abydos abye Abyla abysm abysmal abysmally abyss abyssal abyssal zone Abyssinia Abyssinian Abyssinian banana Abyssinian cat Abyssinian gold Abyssinian guinea pig abyssopelagic abyssopelagic zone Abzug AC ac- ac. AC/DC ACA acacia Acacia auriculiformis Acacia cambegei Acacia catechu Acacia dealbata Acacia farnesiana Acacia melanoxylon Acacia pycnantha Acacia xanthophloea Acacin academe academese academia Academial Academian academic academic administrator academic costume academic degree academic department academic dress academic freedom academic gown academic press academic program academic relation	ACAA ACAA1 ACAAA ACAAC ACAAF ACAAI ACAAK ACAAM ACAAP ACAATO ACAAWR ACAB ACAB ACABC ACABN ACABQ ACABS ACAC ACACA ACACB ACACC ACACD ACACE ACACES ACACHS acacia Acacia aneura Acacia aneura Acacia aneura Acacia arcuata Acacia auriculiformis Acacia auriculiformis Acacia baileyana Acacia berlandieri Acacia berlandieri Acacia berlandieri Acacia binervia Acacia cambegei Acacia cana Acacia cana Acacia cana Acacia catechu Acacia catechu Acacia catechu Acacia catechuoides Acacia catechuoides Acacia coriacea Acacia cuspidifolia Acacia dealbata Acacia erioloba Acacia erioloba Acacia erioloba Acacia farnesiana Acacia farnesiana var. farnesiana Acacia furnesiana Acacia georginae

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Acacia auriculiformis
Acacia cambegei
Acacia catechu
Acacia dealbata
Acacia farnesiana
Acacia melanoxylon
Acacia pycnantha
Acacia xanthophloea
black catechu
cassie
catechu
fever tree
flame tree
genus Acacia
gidgee
golden wattle
gum acacia
gum arabic
huisache

And the poor soldier went to the acacia; but when he was a few steps from it, the countess looked at him, as if defying him, although a slight expression of fear seemed to flicker in her eye; then, with a single bound she sprang from the acacia to a laburnum, and thence to a Norway fir, where she darted from branch to branch with extraordinary agility.

Adieu by de Balzac, Honore View in context

It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.

Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context

The water was quite free from reptiles, and the vegetation upon the banks of the river had altered to more open and parklike forest, with eucalyptus and acacia mingled with a scattering of tree ferns, as though two distinct periods of geologic time had overlapped and merged.

The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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