needle-shaped

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People who lived and worked in Libby breathed in the microscopic needle-shaped asbestos fibers that can cause the lung cancer mesothelioma or lung scarring called asbestosis, the lawsuit argues.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

So Tarduno went searching for rocks of the right age containing tiny, needle-shaped crystals of the mineral titanomagnetite, which record the magnetic field’s strength at the time of their crystallization.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

These are evergreen coniferous trees like pines, spruce, and fir, which retain their needle-shaped leaves year-round.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

This new model showed needle-shaped bone mineral crystals twisting into and around the collagen fibers, entangling them in a stiff, spiral scaffold.

From Scientific American • May 3, 2018

Leaves simple, scattered along the season's shoots, clustered on the short, thick dwarf branches, about an inch long, pale green, needle-shaped; apex obtuse; sessile.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low