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Acicular synonyms
ə-sĭk'yə-lər
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aciculate
Furnished with aciculae.
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  1. Furnished with aciculae.
  2. Having marks like scratches made by a needle
  3. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
aciculated
Alternative form of aciculate.
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  1. Alternative form of aciculate.
acuminate
Pointed; tapering to a point
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  1. Pointed; tapering to a point
  2. Tapering gradually to a sharp point, as the tips of certain leaves.
acute
Having an acute angle:
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  1. Having an acute angle:
  2. Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
  3. Narrowly pointed; sharp:
cuspate
Having a cusp.
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  1. Having a cusp.
  2. Having cusps
  3. Shaped like a cusp.
cuspated
Ending in a point.
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  1. Ending in a point.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
cuspidate
Having a cusp or cusps
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  1. Having a cusp or cusps
  2. Having a short, abrupt point, as some leaves
  3. (Biology) Terminating in or tipped with a sharp firm point:
cuspidated
Alternative form of cuspidate.
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  1. Alternative form of cuspidate.
mucronate
(Biology) Terminating in a mucro (an abruptly tapering point or a sharp spine) such as at the end of a leaf.
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  1. (Biology) Terminating in a mucro (an abruptly tapering point or a sharp spine) such as at the end of a leaf.
  2. Of or having a mucro; ending abruptly in a sharp point:
pointed
Characterized by the use of a pointed crown, as in Gothic architecture:
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  1. Characterized by the use of a pointed crown, as in Gothic architecture:
  2. Sharp; cutting:
  3. (Comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
pointy
Having many points
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  1. Having many points
  2. Having an end tapering to a point.
  3. (Informal) pointed in shape, having a point or points
sharp
Marked by keenness and accuracy of perception:
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  1. Marked by keenness and accuracy of perception:
  2. Abrupt or acute:
  3. Fierce or impetuous; violent:
Find another word for acicular. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for acicular, like: aciculate, aciculated, acuminate, acute, cuspate, cuspated, cuspidate, cuspidated, mucronate, pointed and pointy.

Sentence Examples

  • It is the methyl ester of a neutral body colchicein, which may be obtained in white acicular crystals.

  • These are, according to Meyer, acicular crystals, which he calls tricizites.

  • Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).

  • Sammetblende or przibramite is a variety, from Przibram in Bohemia, consisting of delicate acicular or capillary crystals arranged in radiating groups with a velvety surface and yellow colour.

  • The difference between schists and gneisses is mainly that the latter have less highly developed foliation; they also, as a rule, are more coarse grained, and contain far more quartz and felspar, two minerals which rarely assume platy or acicular forms, and hence do not lead to the production of a fissile character in the rocks in which they are important constituents.

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