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Etymology
[edit]From Latin aciculāris.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Adjective
[edit]acicular (not comparable)
- 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.”
- 1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279,[1]
- Having sharp points like needles.
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]needle-shaped
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having sharp points
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botany: needle-like
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Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]acicular m or f (plural aciculares)
- acicular (needle-shaped)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French aciculaire.
Adjective
[edit]acicular m or n (feminine singular aciculară, masculine plural aciculari, feminine and neuter plural aciculare)
Declension
[edit]Declension of acicular
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | acicular | aciculară | aciculari | aciculare | ||
definite | acicularul | aciculara | acicularii | acicularele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | acicular | aciculare | aciculari | aciculare | ||
definite | acicularului | acicularei | acicularilor | acicularelor |
Further reading
[edit]- acicular in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθikuˈlaɾ/ [a.θi.kuˈlaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /asikuˈlaɾ/ [a.si.kuˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ci‧cu‧lar
Adjective
[edit]acicular m or f (masculine and feminine plural aciculares)
Further reading
[edit]- “acicular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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