acicular

a. 针状的, 针尖状的

发音

US /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.

    Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike

    1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279, 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.”

  2. 2.

    Having sharp points like needles.

  3. 3.

    Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.

    生物 植物学

    the acicular foliage of coniferous trees

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

acerate acerose needle-shaped

近义相关 2

simple unsubdivided

词源

From Latin aciculāris.

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