acicular
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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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Here, in storm or shine, is shelter from the winter wind or shade from the summer sun, while underfoot the fallen acicular leaves of the pines are impervious to the damp.
From Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch by E. W. Haslehust
The crystals are usually small and are prismatic or acicular in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the face lettered a in the adjoining figure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations.
From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Frederick Hutton Getman
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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