Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike
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Acicular
//əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ//
Synonyms for "acicular" (24 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- игловиден adj (needle-shaped)
Finnish
3 entries- neulamainen adj (needle-shaped)
- neulasmainen adj (botany: needle-like)
- piikikäs adj (having sharp points)
French
3 entries- aciculaire adj (needle-shaped)
- aciculaire adj (having sharp points)
- aciculaire adj (botany: needle-like)
Greek
1 entries- βελονοειδής adj (needle-shaped)
Hebrew
2 entries- מַחְטָנִי adj (needle-shaped)
- מַחְטָנִי adj (botany: needle-like)
Portuguese
1 entries- acicular adj (needle-shaped)
Romanian
2 entries- acicular adj (needle-shaped)
- acicular adj (botany: needle-like)
Russian
4 entries- игловидный adj (needle-shaped)
- игольчатый adj (needle-shaped)
- игольчатый adj (botany: needle-like)
- остроконечный adj (having sharp points)
Turkish
4 entries- asiküler adj (needle-shaped)
- asiküler adj (having sharp points)
- asiküler adj (botany: needle-like)
- iğnemsi adj (needle-shaped)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279, 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.”
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the acicular foliage of coniferous trees
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[…] 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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