a cicula

[Lat. = a small pin for a headdre . A feminine diminutive for acusa needle: Gr. ἀκή ( ake ) = a point; Lat. acies = a point.] 1. Bot. & Zool. A slender spine or bristle. In Bot . ( spec .): The bristle-like abortive flower of a gra . In this sense used specially by Dumortier. (Lindley: Introd. to Bot .) 2. Zool. A genus of operculous pulmonated Mollusca. A. fusc a occurs recent in Britain, besides being fo il in the Pliocene of E ex.