"acicular" meaning in English

See acicular in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/ [US]
Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ) Etymology: From Latin aciculāris. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|aciculāris}} Latin aciculāris, {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂eḱ-}} Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} acicular (not comparable)
  1. Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle. Tags: not-comparable Translations (needle-shaped): игловиден (igloviden) (Bulgarian), neulamainen (Finnish), aciculaire [feminine, masculine] (French), βελονοειδής (velonoeidís) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), מַחְטָנִי (makhtaní) (Hebrew), acicular (Portuguese), acicular (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-acicular-en-adj-5F7VDI8D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 6 23 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 84 5 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 78 6 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 80 4 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 75 10 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 79 8 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 76 10 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 72 7 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 76 9 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 76 8 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 76 9 15 Disambiguation of 'needle-shaped': 94 2 4
  2. Having sharp points like needles. Tags: not-comparable Translations (having sharp points): piikikäs (Finnish), aciculaire [feminine, masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-acicular-en-adj-oFmtpRPZ Disambiguation of 'having sharp points': 4 89 7
  3. (botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Botany Translations (botany: needle-like): neulasmainen (Finnish), aciculaire [feminine, masculine] (French), מַחְטָנִי (makhtaní) (Hebrew), acicular (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-acicular-en-adj-gA02txkc Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'botany: needle-like': 20 2 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acicularity, acicularly, nonacicular, subacicular
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "acicularity"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "acicularly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "nonacicular"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "subacicular"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aciculāris"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aciculāris",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂eḱ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin aciculāris.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "acicular (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "71 6 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 5 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 6 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 4 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 10 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 8 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 10 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 7 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 9 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 8 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 9 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279,\nSometimes these networks have an acicular or crystalline appearance, and may grow visibly, sometimes with sudden jerks, “like frost on a windowpane,” or “primitive plants.”"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle."
      ],
      "id": "en-acicular-en-adj-5F7VDI8D",
      "links": [
        [
          "Needle",
          "needle"
        ],
        [
          "bristle",
          "bristle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "igloviden",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "word": "игловиден"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "word": "neulamainen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "aciculaire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "velonoeidís",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "βελονοειδής"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "makhtaní",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "word": "מַחְטָנִי"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "word": "acicular"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 2 4",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "needle-shaped",
          "word": "acicular"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having sharp points like needles."
      ],
      "id": "en-acicular-en-adj-oFmtpRPZ",
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 89 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having sharp points",
          "word": "piikikäs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 89 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "having sharp points",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "aciculaire"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Botany",
          "orig": "en:Botany",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the acicular foliage of coniferous trees",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, John Ruskin, chapter 3, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VIII (Of Ideas of Relation:—I. Of Invention Formal.), page 189:",
          "text": "[…] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like."
      ],
      "id": "en-acicular-en-adj-gA02txkc",
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ],
        [
          "leaf",
          "leaf"
        ],
        [
          "slender",
          "slender"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "20 2 78",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "botany: needle-like",
          "word": "neulasmainen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "20 2 78",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "botany: needle-like",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "aciculaire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "20 2 78",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "makhtaní",
          "sense": "botany: needle-like",
          "word": "מַחְטָנִי"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "20 2 78",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "botany: needle-like",
          "word": "acicular"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acicular"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)/4 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "acicularity"
    },
    {
      "word": "acicularly"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonacicular"
    },
    {
      "word": "subacicular"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aciculāris"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aciculāris",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂eḱ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin aciculāris.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "acicular (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279,\nSometimes these networks have an acicular or crystalline appearance, and may grow visibly, sometimes with sudden jerks, “like frost on a windowpane,” or “primitive plants.”"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Needle",
          "needle"
        ],
        [
          "bristle",
          "bristle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having sharp points like needles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Botany"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the acicular foliage of coniferous trees",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, John Ruskin, chapter 3, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VIII (Of Ideas of Relation:—I. Of Invention Formal.), page 189:",
          "text": "[…] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ],
        [
          "leaf",
          "leaf"
        ],
        [
          "slender",
          "slender"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "igloviden",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "word": "игловиден"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "word": "neulamainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aciculaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "velonoeidís",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "βελονοειδής"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "makhtaní",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "word": "מַחְטָנִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "word": "acicular"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "needle-shaped",
      "word": "acicular"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having sharp points",
      "word": "piikikäs"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having sharp points",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aciculaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "botany: needle-like",
      "word": "neulasmainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "botany: needle-like",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aciculaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "makhtaní",
      "sense": "botany: needle-like",
      "word": "מַחְטָנִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "botany: needle-like",
      "word": "acicular"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acicular"
}

Download raw JSONL data for acicular meaning in English (4.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.