[], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- Full of or resembling chaff.

- Needle-shaped and rigid, as the leaves of a pine tree; sharply pointed; acicular.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century; earliest use found in Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), lexicographer and schoolmaster. From classical Latin acerōsus full of or mixed with chaff from acer-, acus chaff + -ōsus