acicular en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/ (US)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aciculāris.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279, Sometimes these networks have an acicular or crystalline appearance, and may grow visibly, sometimes with sudden jerks, “like frost on a windowpane,” or “primitive plants.”
Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike
- (not-comparable) Having sharp points like needles.
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(not-comparable) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.
[…] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.
1860, John Ruskin, chapter 3, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VIII (Of Ideas of Relation:—I. Of Invention Formal.), page 189:the acicular foliage of coniferous trees
Deriveds
subacicular · acicularity · nonacicular · acicularly
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Translations (24)
fi neulasmainen (botany: needle-like) · tr sivri (having sharp points) · ru игольчатый (botany: needle-like) · fr aciculaire (having sharp points) · ru игольчатый (needle-shaped) · pt acicular (needle-shaped) · he מַחְטָנִי (needle-shaped) · tr asiküler (having sharp points) · fr aciculaire (needle-shaped) · fi neulamainen (needle-shaped) · tr asiküler (botany: needle-like) · tr asiküler (needle-shaped) · tr iğnemsi (botany: needle-like) · ru остроконечный (having sharp points) · ro acicular (botany: needle-like) · ro acicular (needle-shaped) · el βελονοειδής (needle-shaped) · mk игловиден (needle-shaped) · tr iğnemsi (needle-shaped) · fr aciculaire (botany: needle-like) · bg игловиден (needle-shaped) · he מַחְטָנִי (botany: needle-like) · ru игловидный (needle-shaped) · fi piikikäs (having sharp points)