Acaroid
(Ac"a*roid) a. [NL., acarus a mite + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Shaped like or resembling a mite.
Acarpellous
(Ac`ar*pel"lous) a. [Pref. a- not + carpel.] (Bot.) Having no carpels.
Acarpous
(A*car"pous) a. [Gr. 'a priv. + fruit.] (Bot.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
Acarus
(||Ac"a*rus) n.; pl. Acari [NL., from Gr. the cheese mite, tick.] (Zoöl.) A genus including many
species of small mites.
Acatalectic
(A*cat`a*lec"tic) a. [L. acatalecticus, Gr. not defective at the end; 'a priv. + to cease.] (Pros.)
Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. — n. A verse which has the complete number of feet
and syllables.
Acatalepsy
(A*cat"a*lep`sy) n. [Gr. 'a priv. + to seize, comprehend.] Incomprehensibility of things; the
doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty,
but only to probability.
Acataleptic
(A*cat`a*lep"tic) a. Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.
Acater
(A*ca"ter) n. See Caterer. [Obs.]
Acates
(A*cates") n. pl. See Cates. [Obs.]
Acaudate
(A*cau"date) a. [Pref. a- not + caudate.] Tailless.
Acaulescent
(Ac`au*les"cent) a. [Pref. a- not + caulescent.] (Bot.) Having no stem or caulis, or only
a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.
Acauline
(A*cau"line) a. [Pref. a- not + cauline.] (Bot.) Same as Acaulescent.
