acicular

From Latin aciculāris.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/
• 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,

     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, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VIII (Of Ideas of Relation:—I. Of Invention Formal.), page 189:

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

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) /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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014