Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AC'RO-SPIRE
AC'RO-SPIRE, n. [Gr. ακρος, highest, and σπειρα, a spire, or spiral line.]
A shoot, or sprout of a seed; the plume, or plumule, so called from its spiral form. – Mortimer.
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