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acinus.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈæsɪnəs/
  1. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

  2. A grape-stone.

  3. 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.

Where this word comes from

Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.

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