Acanthus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACANTHUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a prickly plant with toothed leaves, also ACANTH, ACANTHA
• a conventionalized representation of an acanthus leaf, used especially as a decoration for Corinthian column capitals.
• a herbaceous plant or shrub with bold flower spikes and spiny decorative leaves, found in warm regions of the Old World.
• A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear\'s-breech.
• An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.
• any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
• prickly plant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prickly herb

Words related to ACANTHUS

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Words that contain ACANTHUS

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How to use ACANTHUS in a sentence

• They are composed of the ears and leaves of the Indian corn, beautifully arranged, and forming as graceful an outline as the acanthus itself.
• At the same place I saw his Proserpine, an ideal bust of great sweetness and beauty, the fair chest swelling out from a circle of leaves of the acanthus.
• With the acanthus and scroll as their principal units of design, they elaborated and enriched every form that would admit of it.
• It used religious symbols extensively, but incorporated in its ornament a few pagan elements, such as the acanthus and the scroll.
• Those acanthus scrolls and honeysuckle borders, in spite of their consummate finish, fail to arrest attention, leaving the soul as unstirred as the Ovidian cadences of Bembo.
• These resolutions were passed, and the deputies from Acanthus rose again.
• I remember a little colored girl in this New York school who was drawing for the pattern she was about to embroider, a carefully elaborated acanthus leaf.
• The acanthus, however, went steadily through successive variation until it attained the virile form seen in the best Byzantine work.
• The one almost universal moulding is decorated with acanthus units, and the capitals have acanthus leaves around their bells.
• The acanthus in the Romanesque has lost much of its vigor, is flat, heavy-tipped, round-edged, and scratched with V-cuts, and the vine is the leaf preferred by designers.
• The root of the Acanthus produced the leaves which overhanging the sides of the basket struck the fancy of the Architect.
• Meanwhile, Brasidas succeeded in persuading Acanthus to revolt, he himself winning the highest of reputations for justice and moderation as well as for military skill.
• Acanthus ilicifolius, Cynometra acacisides, Cyperaceae, Soneralia acida, Avicennia, Stravadium, Croton malvaefolium are very common, Creni sp.

Similar words containing ACANTHU without suffix s

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