Acicular

One I like to point to as an example is "acicular" which goes: ❋ Unknown (2004)

Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One fissure was completely lined with exquisite, acicular crystals of sulphur, which perished with a touch. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Signs of volcanic activity are present more or less throughout its whole depth, and for some distance round its margin, in the form of steam cracks, jets of sulphurous vapour, blowing cones, accumulating deposits of acicular crystals of sulphur, etc., and the pit itself is constantly rent and shaken by earthquakes. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Those of the beryl we sometimes find quite flat, as though they had been compressed by force: then again they are acicular and of extraordinary length, considering their slender diameter. ❋ Various (N/A)

Palpi very slightly curved; second joint brown on the outer side; third acicular, a little shorter than the second. ❋ Various (N/A)

Professors Babcock and Munroe, of Chicago, call the plants either the Hydrogastrum of Rabenhorst, or the Botrydium of the Micrographic Dictionary, the crystalline acicular bodies being deemed parasitic. ❋ Various (N/A)

It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The crystals are usually small and are prismatic or acicular in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the face lettered a in the adjoining figure. ❋ Various (N/A)

If further examination shall establish our result, we have in the form of grayish-white acicular crystals a substance which stands to cannabis in nearly the same proportional relation of potency as niorphia to opium, and this most powerful remedy can be given as easily and certainly as any in the pharmacopoeia. ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)

Paris, Medallist in Chemistry and Botany, etc. Having found, in small quantities, alcohols of the C_ {n} H_ {2n-7} series, last summer, in the stem, acicular leaves, and cones of _Pinus sylvestris_, I wish in this paper to say a few words on the subject. ❋ Various (N/A)

At the latter temperature dense white fumes appear, and a condensation of tufts of acicular crystals (some well defined) is found upon the cool surface of the apparatus. ❋ Various (N/A)

Echinate: Beset with acicular extensions (Fig. 150, c). ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Hyoscyamine crystallizes in the acicular form, with greater difficulty even than atropine, it also forms less compact crystals. ❋ Various (N/A)

Further along the tube it is slowly deposited in a porcelain like form, while further still the sublimate of sulphide takes the form of brilliant acicular crystals. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the same manner I treated the acicular leaves, and portions of the stem separately, both being previously cut up into small pieces, and from both I obtained phenol. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thus, the acicular-leaved trees, consisting of Pines and their congeners, mark the cold-temperate and sub-arctic zones, in north latitude, -- while Myrtles, ❋ Various (N/A)

Here, in storm or shine, is shelter from the winter wind or shade from the summer sun, while underfoot the fallen acicular leaves of the pines are impervious to the damp. ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)

It occurs as a crystal or mass of quartz holding as inclusions scores of acicular crystals of rutile; these are brown, red and yellow in color and are meshed in confusing lines of fiery brightness which are very effective in artificial light. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

Spores ellipsoid, fusiform, or dactyloid _Bilimbia_, p. Spores acicular _Bacidia_, p. Spores brown, or becoming brown. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)