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Acanthaceous vs Retinaculum - What's the difference?

acanthaceous | retinaculum |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between acanthaceous and retinaculum

is that acanthaceous is (botany): of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the acanthaceae familybrown, lesley, ed the shorter oxford english dictionary 5th oxford: oxford university press, 2003 while retinaculum is (botany) a small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

As an adjective acanthaceous

is (botany): of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the acanthaceae familybrown, lesley, ed the shorter oxford english dictionary 5th oxford: oxford university press, 2003.

As a noun retinaculum is

(anatomy) a connecting band.

acanthaceous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Armed with prickles, as a plant.

    • Related terms

    * acantha

    References

    retinaculum

    English

    Noun

    (retinacula)
  • (anatomy) A connecting band.
    • the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves
  • (anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
  • (zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
  • (zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
  • (botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
    • (Webster 1913)