Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

1. A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

2. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Ac"aˇcin, Ac"aˇcine (?), n. Gum arabic.

Ac`aˇdeme" (?), n. [L. academia. See Academy.] An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

Ac`aˇde"miˇal (?), a. Academic. [R.]

Ac`aˇde"miˇan (?), n. A member of an academy, university, or college.

Ac`aˇdem"ic (?), Ac`aˇdem"icˇal (?), a. [L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy.]

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

Ac`aˇdem"ic, n.

1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Ac`aˇdem`icˇalˇly, adv. In an academical manner.

Ac`aˇdem"icˇals (?), n. pl. The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Ac`aˇdeˇmi"cian (#; 277), n. [F. académicien. See Academy.]