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Acicular

adjective
1.
Narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves.  Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped.






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"Acicular" Quotes from Famous Books



... subterranean detonations. These were on the side of a small, flank crack which was smoking heavily. There was light pumice everywhere, but nothing like recent lava or scoriae. One fissure was completely lined with exquisite, acicular crystals of sulphur, which perished with a touch. Lower down there were two hot springs with a deposit of sulphur round their margins, and bubbles of gas, which, from its strong, garlicky smell, I suppose to be sulphuretted hydrogen. Farther progress in that direction was impossible ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird

... quantities, alcohols of the C{n}H{2n-7} series, last summer, in the stem, acicular leaves, and cones of Pinus sylvestris, I wish in this paper to say a few words ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Acicular" :   acerose, unsubdivided, acerate, acicula, simple



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