MEANING
Long, narrow, and pointed like a needle.
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- acicular crystals
- acicular leaves
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Acicular crystals lined the exposed cavity.
The shrub’s acicular leaves caught beads of dew.
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- acicular
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a shape classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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