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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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.

From Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch by Haslehust, E. W.

One, named Einerguendi by Brown, consisted of compact felspar, coloured green by chlorite, with grains of quartz and acicular crystals of felspar.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

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 Darwin, Charles

One fissure was completely lined with exquisite, acicular crystals of sulphur, which perished with a touch.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)