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語源

Latin acicula.

発音

• 韻: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

形容詞

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

   • 1860, John Ruskin, chapter 3, in Modern Painters, volume V (parts VI–IX), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], page 189:

     […] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.

派生語

• acicularly