acicular

adj
/əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/US

Etymology

From Latin aciculāris.

  1. borrowed from aciculāris

Definitions

  1. Needle-shaped

    Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.

    • Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike
  2. Having sharp points like needles.

  3. 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.

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