English dictionary: words starting with acros

Meanings of Acroscopic:

adjective

Situated on the side of or facing an apex.

Meanings of Acrosome:

noun

A membrane-bound, darkly staining, granular structure surrounding the anterior end of the nucleus in a spermatozoon, containing enzymes that assist in the penetration of the ovum.

Meanings of Acrosomes:

noun

A membrane-bound, darkly staining, granular structure surrounding the anterior end of the nucleus in a spermatozoon, containing enzymes that assist in the penetration of the ovum.

Meanings of Acrospire:

noun

The plumule or shoot of a grain of barley or other cereal used in malting.

Meanings of Acrospired:

noun

The plumule or shoot of a grain of barley or other cereal used in malting.

Meanings of Acrospore:

noun

Originally: †a stalked antheridium of a moss, liverwort, or other cryptogam (obsolete rare). in later use: a spore produced at the apex of a hypha or other cellular filament forming the structural element of a fungus; a basidiospore.

Meanings of Acrosporous:

adjective

Relating to or characterized by acrospores.

Meanings of Across:

preposition

From one side to the other of (a place, area, etc.).

Usage examples:

I ran across the street

adverb

From one side to the other of a place, area, etc.

Usage examples:

He had swum across

Meanings of Across the board:

phrase

Applying to all.

Usage examples:

The cutbacks might be across the board

adjective

Having an effect on everyone or everything of a particular type

Usage examples:

The mayor threatened across-the-board spending cuts.

Meanings of Acrostic:

noun

A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Usage examples:

The title of the poem is a near acrostic, containing the word coital (perhaps suggestive of self an…

Meanings of Acrostical:

adjective

Of the nature of, consisting of, or in the form of an acrostic.

Meanings of Acrostically:

adverb

In the manner of an acrostic.

Meanings of Acrostichal:

adjective

Of the bristles on the mesothorax of some dipteran flies: arranged in rows on the dorsal part of this (the mesonotum).

noun

An acrostichal bristle.

Meanings of Acrostichic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or in the form of an acrostic.

Meanings of Acrostichoid:

adjective

Originally: †designating a fern in which the sori arise as a continuous mass covering the lower surface of the fertile frond, typified by, but not exclusive to, the genus acrostichum (family polypodiaceae); characteristic of such a fern (obsolete). now: specifically designating or relating to sori with this pattern of distribution.

Meanings of Acrosticism:

noun

The method of acrostics; acrostical arrangement or character.

Meanings of Acrostics:

noun

A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Usage examples:

The title of the poem is a near acrostic, containing the word coital (perhaps suggestive of self an…