awl-shaped

American  

[awl-sheypt] / ˈɔlˌʃeɪpt /

adjective

1. having the shape of an awl.

2. subulate.

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Etymology

Origin of awl-shaped

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

Pistils 3–8, stipitate; seeds flattened laterally, covered with chaffy scales, in one row in the membranaceous pods; style awl-shaped; stigma minute.

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

Calyx-tube tapering at the summit; the lobes slender, awl-shaped, persistent.

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

Style elongated awl-shaped, stigmatic and papillose down one side.

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

Filaments awl-shaped; anthers short, innate or somewhat introrse, 2-celled.

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

Stamens 4, ascending and approximate in pairs under the upper lip; the filaments of the upper pair longer than the others in P. tuberosa, with an awl-shaped appendage at base; anther-cells divergent and confluent.—Leaves rugose.

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