Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Needle-shaped; acicular; aciculiform.
Wiktionary
- adj. Furnished with aciculae.
- adj. acicular
- adj. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Furnished with aciculæ.
- adj. Acicular.
- adj. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts
Examples
“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
“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
“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
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