Acanthus Small 172×320 Medium 343×640 Large 550×1024 Download Tiff Original 1288×2400 | (659.1 KB) Description "A genus of small herbaceous plants of southern Europe and Africa; they have spinosely toothed leaves, and they are sometimes cultivated for the sake of their beautiful foliage."-Whitney, 1902 Keywords anathurus, foilage, leafs, plant Galleries Flowers and Shrubs: A Source: William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, an Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1902)I:30