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acerate

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ac⋅er⋅ate

  [as-uh-reyt, -er-it]
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–adjective
acerose 1 .
Origin:
1840–50; < L acer- (by the error analyzed for acerose 1 ) + -ate 1

ac⋅er⋅ose

1  [as-uh-rohs]
–adjective Botany.
needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine.
Also, acerate, acerous.

Origin:
1775–85; special sense of acerose 2 , by misattribution of acer- to L acus needle, whose s. is acu- and not acer- (cf. acute )
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ac·er·ate   (ās'ə-rāt')   
adj.  Acerose.

[From Latin ācer, sharp; see ak- in Indo-European roots.]
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