acicular

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The phonolite is of a greenish-grey colour, and is full of minute acicular crystals of feldspar; in most parts it has a conchoidal fracture, and is sonorous, yet it is crenulated with minute air-cavities.

From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles

Professors Babcock and Munroe, of Chicago, call the plants either the Hydrogastrum of Rabenhorst, or the Botrydium of the Micrographic Dictionary, the crystalline acicular bodies being deemed parasitic.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)

Having found, in small quantities, alcohols of the CnH2n-7 series, last summer, in the stem, acicular leaves, and cones of Pinus sylvestris, I wish in this paper to say a few words on the subject.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

Mī′crolith, a name suggested by Vogelsang in 1867 for the microscopic acicular components of rocks.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various