Usually means: Needle-like, slender and pointed shape.
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  1. aciculate: Merriam-Webster
  2. aciculate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. aciculate: Vocabulary.com
  4. aciculate: Wordnik
  5. aciculate: Wiktionary
  6. aciculate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. aciculate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Aciculate, aciculate: Dictionary.com
  9. Aciculate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. aciculate: Rhymezone
  11. Aciculate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. aciculate: FreeDictionary.org
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  14. aciculate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. aciculate: Merriam-Webster

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  1. aciculate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aciculate)

▸ adjective:  Furnished with aciculae.
▸ adjective:  acicular (needle-shaped)
▸ adjective:  Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.

Similar:
aciculated, monticulate, aduncous, uncinate, acetabulous, acinonodular, obtusangular, acuminose, acuminate, aduncate, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, rounded

Types:
pointed, sharp, barbed, prickly, needled, stinging, piercing, stingy, more...

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Similar:
aciculated, monticulate, aduncous, uncinate, acetabulous, acinonodular, obtusangular, acuminose, acuminate, aduncate, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, rounded

Types:
pointed, sharp, barbed, prickly, needled, stinging, piercing, stingy, more...



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