Usually means: Ornamental plant with spiny leaves.
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  1. acanthus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Acanthus, acanthus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acanthus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acanthus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acanthus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acanthus, acanthus: Wordnik
  7. acanthus: Wiktionary
  8. acanthus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acanthus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. acanthus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Acanthus, acanthus: Dictionary.com
  12. acanthus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Acanthus (Caria), Acanthus (Egypt), Acanthus (Greece), Acanthus (Spartan), Acanthus (disambiguation), Acanthus (genus), Acanthus (ornament), Acanthus (plant), Acanthus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Acanthus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acanthus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acanthus: Rhymezone
  17. Acanthus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acanthus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. acanthus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. acanthus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acanthus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Acanthus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. acanthus: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acanthus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. acanthus: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

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  1. Acanthus (mythology), acanthus: Encyclopedia

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  2. Acanthus (mythology): Medical dictionary

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Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. acanthus: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  3. Acanthus: TheFurniture.com

(Note: See acanthi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acanthus)

noun:  A member of the genus Acanthus of herbaceous prickly plants with toothed leaves, (family Acanthaceae, order Lamiales (formerly Scrophulariales)) found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India.
noun:  (architecture) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of Acanthus spinosus, used in the capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders.

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