Usually means: Thin, needle-like crystal shape.
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  1. acicular: Merriam-Webster
  2. acicular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acicular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acicular: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Acicular: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. acicular: Wiktionary
  9. acicular: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. acicular: Dictionary.com
  11. Acicular (botany), Acicular (crystal habit), Acicular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Acicular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. acicular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. acicular: Rhymezone
  15. Acicular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. acicular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. acicular: FreeDictionary.org
  18. acicular: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. acicular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. acicular: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. acicular: Merriam-Webster

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  1. acicular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. acicular: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. acicular: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Acicular: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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  1. Acicular: Gems and Precious Stones

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Definitions from Wiktionary (acicular)

▸ adjective:  Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
▸ adjective:  Having sharp points like needles.
▸ adjective:  (botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.

Similar:
needle-shaped, acerose, pointed, simple, acerate, unsubdivided, subacicular, acanaceous, acanthoid, acanthaceous, more...

Opposite:
blunt, rounded, flat, dull

Types:
needle, dendrite, needle-like, dendritic, more...

Adjectives:
small, slender, fine, coarse, long, glossary, more, minute

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Similar:
needle-shaped, acerose, pointed, simple, acerate, unsubdivided, subacicular, acanaceous, acanthoid, acanthaceous, more...

Opposite:
blunt, rounded, flat, dull

Types:
needle, dendrite, needle-like, dendritic, more...

Adjectives:
small, slender, fine, coarse, long, glossary, more, minute



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