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‖ acicula Nat. Hist.|əˈsɪkjʊlə|
Pl. aciculæ.
[L., dimin. of acus a needle. Incorrect variants are aciculum, aciculus.]
A technical name for a slender needle-like body, such as the spines or prickles with which some animals and plants are furnished, or the needle-like crystals of certain minerals; ‘the bristle-like abortive flower of a grass.’ Lindley Treas. Bot.
1875J. W. Dawson Dawn of Life iv. 87 This fringe..is..made up of a multitude of extremely delicate aciculi, standing side by side like the fibres of asbestos. 1858W. Clark tr. Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 231 Body round, with 4 rows of double aciculæ. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. v. 229 The neuropodial is very much longer than the notopodial aciculum. |