acropolis (akropolis)

[L., The Acropolis of Athens, from the southeast. surrounding country. When the city spread beyond its earlier limits, the acropolis was generally cleared of its inhabitants and held sacred to the divinities of the state, whose temples were upon it. The acropolis of Athens contained the most splendid productions of Greek art, the Par the non, the Erechtheum, and the Propylæa. acrosarcum (ak-rō-sär'kum), n.; pl. acrosarca (-kā). [NL., Gr. άκρος, at the end, + σάρξ (σαρκ-), flesh.] A name given by Desvaux to a berry resulting from an ovary with adnate calyx, as in the currant and cranberry. acrosaurus (ak-rō-sa'rus), n.; pl. acrosauri (-ri). [NL.,