Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Needle-shaped; acicular; aciculiform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with aciculæ.
- adjective Acicular.
- adjective Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Furnished with
aciculae . - adjective
acicular - adjective Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts
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Examples
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Abdomen aciculate as in the worker, but much more deeply strangulated between the first and second segments; the petiole rugose and clavate.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black, smooth, and shining, very delicately and indistinctly aciculate; the antennæ beneath and the tibiæ and femora obscurely ferruginous, the anterior and intermediate tibiæ brightest; the apex of the mandibles ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Abdomen longitudinally aciculate, a central carina at the base of the first segment, the second segment with an oblique impressed line running from the lateral angles of its basal margin, and meeting in the centre of its posterior margin; the margins of all the segments constricted; the ovipositor shorter than the abdomen.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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