acini

[as-uh-nuhs]

noun, plural -ni

[-nahy] .

Botany. one of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate, baccate fruit, as the blackberry.

a berry, as a grape or currant.

Anatomy.

a minute rounded lobule.

the smallest secreting portion of a gland.

Origin:
1725–35; < Latin: grape, berry, seed of a berry

Related forms

ac·i·nar

[as-uh-ner, -nahr] , a·cin·ic

[uh-sin-ik] , adjective

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acinus ac·i·nus (ās'ə-nəs)
n. pl. ac·i·ni (-nī')
Any of several minute grape-shaped secretory portions of an acinous gland.

a·cin'ic (ə-sĭn'ĭk) or ac'i·nose' (ās'ə-nōs') or ac'i·nous (-nəs) adj.

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