aciculate

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adjective

Furnished with aciculae.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveaciculate (comparative more aciculate, superlative most aciculate)

comparative more aciculate · superlative most aciculate · alternative aciculated

  1. Furnished with aciculae.
  2. acicular (needle-shaped)

    The chief points of difference between specimens of the two are that those of R. mutabilis are more setaceous, but less aciculate on the barren stems, the terminal leaflets are more frequently narrowed at the base, though occasionally they have the ovate form usual in the Plymouth plant.

    1871, Berthold Seeman, Journal of botany, British and foreign, volume 9
  3. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.

Translations

French aciculé
  • aciculéneedle-shaped

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