acicular

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Those of the beryl we sometimes find quite flat, as though they had been compressed by force: then again they are acicular and of extraordinary length, considering their slender diameter.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The plumbago occurs both amorphous, and in long acicular crystals.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold

One, named Einerguendi by Brown, consisted of compact felspar, coloured green by chlorite, with grains of quartz and acicular crystals of felspar.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas