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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Acinus \Ac"i*nus\, 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. 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.
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