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Acrospires

[ak-ruh-spahy^uhr]

noun Botany.

the first sprout appearing in the germination of grain; the developed plumule of the seed.

Origin:
1610–20; acro- + spire¹; replacing akerspire, equivalent to aker (Old English æchir ear of grain) + spire

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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