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acicular

/uh-sik-yuh-ler/US // əˈsɪk yə lər //

针状,针状物,针状的,针状结构

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shaped like a needle.
    • : Metallurgy. containing ferrite in a needlelike form. having a microstructure of needlelike components.

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Examples

  • Acicular, as-ik′ū-lar, adj. needle-shaped; slender and sharp-pointed.

  • Spores of Bacidia fuscorubella to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, acicular type.

  • Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees.

  • Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals.

  • The obelisk is from another of Nature's patterns; it is only a gigantic acicular crystal.