acicular
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Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
These brown-coloured, compact lavas, consist almost entirely of small glimmering scales, or of minute acicular crystals, of feldspar, placed close by the side of each other, and abounding with minute black specks, apparently of hornblende.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
It was a ravishing country, a fairy-country of blue skies and fleecy clouds; of acicular summits and sharp-edged crags; of mist-hung valleys shimmering in the sun; of black chasms dizzily bridged by scarlet-flowered vines.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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