Acicular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the shape of a needle: acicular crystals.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
  • adj. Having sharp points like needles.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needles.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the shape of a slender needle or stout bristle; having a sharp point like a needle: as, an acicular prism, like those of stibnite; an acicular bill, as that of a humming-bird. Other forms are aciculate, aciculated, aciculiform, and aciculine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
    • Equivalent
    unsubdivided    simple   
    Cross Reference
    acicular bismuth   
    Form
    acicularly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    needle-shaped   
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