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acicular
[ uh-sik-yuh-ler ]
adjective
- shaped like a needle.
- Metallurgy.
- (of cast iron) containing ferrite in a needlelike form.
- (of an alloy) having a microstructure of needlelike components.
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- a·cic·u·lar·i·ty [uh, -sik-y, uh, -, lar, -i-tee], noun
- a·cicu·lar·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
Acicular, as-ik′ū-lar, adj. needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed.
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Spores of Bacidia fuscorubella to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, acicular type.
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Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees.
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Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals.
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The obelisk is from another of Nature's patterns; it is only a gigantic acicular crystal.
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