acanthineadj.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Acanthine garments, of which we have two different explications. Some understand by it a kind of embroidery, wrought in imitation of the Egyptian acanthus or thorn, whose small sprigs are much interlaced. Others will have it a peculiar kind of silken fluff, made of the lanugo or down of a plant of the thistle kind, growing in Sicily and the East.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 579 Acanthine means ornamented with leaves of the acanthus.

1876 Ld. Houghton Poet. Wks. II. 303 A very garden of luxurious weeds, Hemlock in trees, acanthine leaves outspread.

1936 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 226 189 This paper seeks to elucidate the phylogeny of those British Silurian Rugose Corals which have acanthine septa, i.e., whose septa can be seen by the naked eye each to consist of a row of spines.

1960 S. Plath Colossus 20 I open my lunch on a hill of black cypress. Your fluted bones and acanthine hair are littered In their old anarchy to the horizon-line.

2007 J. K. Cleland Deadly Appraisal (2008) xiii. 76 The mahogany sideboard featured a backsplash that was carved with acanthine scrolls and a bowl of fruit.