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acicula

noun

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin acicula (“pin for a head-dress”)

  1. derived from acicula — “pin for a head-dress”

Definitions

  1. One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants

    One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acicula. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA