acicular

Latin acicula.

• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

acicular (not comparable)

1. 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,^[1]

     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.”

2. Having sharp points like needles.
3. (botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.

   the acicular foliage of coniferous trees

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• acicularly

acicular m or f (plural aciculares)

1. acicular (needle-shaped)

Borrowed from French aciculaire.

acicular m or n (feminine singular aciculară, masculine plural aciculari, feminine and neuter plural aciculare)

1. acicular

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθikuˈlaɾ/ [a.θi.kuˈlaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /asikuˈlaɾ/ [a.si.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ci‧cu‧lar

acicular m or f (masculine and feminine plural aciculares)

1. acicular

• “acicular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10