acicular
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Acicular leaf. 
Anthodites at the Skyline Caverns in Virginia, US. The individual crystals of anthodites develop in an acicular form and often branch out as they grow.
English
Etymology
From Latin aciculāris.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Adjective
acicular (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.”
- 1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279,
- Having sharp points like needles.
- (botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.
- the acicular foliage of coniferous trees
- 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:
- […] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.
Derived terms
Translations
needle-shaped
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having sharp points
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botany: needle-like
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
acicular m or f (plural aciculares)
- acicular (needle-shaped)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French aciculaire.
Adjective
acicular m or n (feminine singular aciculară, masculine plural aciculari, feminine and neuter plural aciculare)
Declension
Declension of acicular
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | acicular | aciculară | aciculari | aciculare | ||
| definite | acicularul | aciculara | acicularii | acicularele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | acicular | aciculare | aciculari | aciculare | ||
| definite | acicularului | acicularei | acicularilor | acicularelor | |||
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθikuˈlaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /asikuˈlaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ci‧cu‧lar
Adjective
acicular m or f (masculine and feminine plural aciculares)
Further reading
- “acicular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014