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

Trees or shrubs, with resinous juice, mostly awl-shaped or needle-shaped entire leaves, and monœcious or rarely diœcious flowers in catkins or solitary, destitute of calyx or corolla.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa