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aculeatus

aculeatus · adj

furnished with stings

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Where it lives

Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ăcūlĕātus — Lewis & Short

ăcūlĕātus, a, um, adj.aculeus,

I furnished with stings or prickles, thorny, prickly.

I Lit., of animals and plants: animalia, Plin. 20, 22, 91: bruchus, Vulg. Jer. 51, 27: herbae, Plin. 24, 19, 119: ictus, a puncture made by a sting, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 223.—

II Fig.

A Stinging, pointed, sharp: istaec ... aculeata sunt, animum fodicant, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30: litterae, Cic. Att. 14, 18, 1.—

B Subtle, cunning: contorta et aculeata sophismata, Cic. Ac. 2, 24.

In the wild

aculeata Cicero, Lucullus 75
aculeatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.32.p1
aculeata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.15.p5
aculeatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.16.p4
aculeato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.17.p7
aculeatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.12.p2

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