acacias
- plural of acacia.
Example Sentences
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Where tall acacias once cast cool shade over a wetland just upstream from the confluence of the Blue and White Nile, barren ground now lies exposed, criss-crossed by people gathering whatever wood remains.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Pierce’s former Ph.D. student Zhengyang Wang, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, and the other field technicians noticed they could predict which acacias one ant species lived in before even touching the tree.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2024
Umbrella thorn acacias in the African savannah, for example, pump toxins into their leaves when giraffes munch them.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2016
As you can see in the picture, the acacia woodlands found in this area consist mostly of acacias or other small trees dispersed across relatively sparse ground, with bunches of vegetation crowded around the base.
From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2013
She twisted herself into a kneeling position, getting several bad scratches from the acacias in the process, and pulled the clay pot back.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
