aculeus

1. 1.

   a stiff sharp-pointed plant process

   Broaderplant process

   Narrowerspine
2. 2.

   a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect

   Broaderstinger

Other forms of aculeus

plural

aculeuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aculeus

What does aculeus mean?

aculeus means "a stiff sharp-pointed plant process". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aculeus?

aculeus has 4 syllables: a-cu-le-us. The stress falls on "cu".

Is aculeus a common word?

aculeus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.