acinus /ˈæsɪnəs/ noun3 •One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. •One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […] — 1828 •A grape-stone. formsacini