Thesaurus / acicular
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Acicular, as-ik′ū-lar, adj. needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed.
Spores of Bacidia fuscorubella to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, acicular type.
OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULL. 10, VOL. 11, NO. 6BRUCE FINK AND LEAFY J. CORRINGTON
Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees.
A VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND ITALYIDA PFEIFFER
Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals.
The obelisk is from another of Nature's patterns; it is only a gigantic acicular crystal.
OVER THE TEACUPSOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog.
CELEBRATED WOMEN TRAVELLERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYW. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS
By repeated solutions in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of white, silky, acicular crystals.
By re-solution in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of colourless, prismatic, acicular crystals.
Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).
Valve very narrow, lanceolate, acicular, with obtuse apices.
THE DIATOMACEAE OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITYCHARLES SUMNER BOYER
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