A*cu"le*a`ted (&?;), a. Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
A*cu"le*i*form (&?;), a. Like a prickle.
A*cu"le*o*late (&?;), a. [L. aculeolus little needle.] (Bot.) Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.
A*cu"le*ous (&?;), a. Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
||A*cu"le*us (&?;), n.; pl. Aculei (&?;). [L., dim. of acus needle.] 1. (Bot.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.