acicular
adj/əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/US
Etymology
From Latin aciculāris.
- borrowed from aciculāris
Definitions
Needle-shaped
Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
- Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike
Having sharp points like needles.
Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.
- the acicular foliage of coniferous trees
- […] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for acicular. 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