Aculeate, armed with prickles, i. e. aculei; as the Rose and Brier.

Aculeolate, armed with small prickles, or slightly prickly.

Acuminate, taper-pointed, [54].

Acute, merely sharp-pointed, or ending in a point less than a right angle, [54].

Adelphous (stamens), joined in a fraternity (adelphia); see [monadelphous], &c.

Aden, Greek for gland. So Adenophorous, gland-bearing.

Adherent, sticking to, or more commonly, growing fast to another body.

Adnate, literally, growing fast to, born adherent, [95]. The anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament or its prolongation, [101].

Adnation, the state of being adnate, [94].

Adpressed or appressed, brought into contact with, but not united.