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Acanthaceous vs Retinaculum - What's the difference?

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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.