acies-, aci- +

(Latin: a sharp edge or point; mental acuity, sharpness of vision)


acicula (s), aciculae (pl)
1. 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.
2. An needle-shaped part, as of a plant or crystal.
acicular, acicularity, acicularly
1. Needle-like; resembling a slender needle or bristle, as the leaves of pine-trees, and various crystals.
2. When referring to cast iron: containing ferrite in a needlelike form; or an alloy having a microstructure of needlelike components.
acicular ice
In hydrology, freshwater ice containing air bubbles and having many long, needlelike crystals and hollow tubes in a layered arrangement.; fibrous ice, satin ice.
aciculate
1. Marked or striated with scratches or having such an appearance.
2. Shaped like a needle; acicular.
aciculate, aciculated
1. Marked or striated with scratches or having such an appearance.
2. Shaped like a needle; acicular.
3. Furnished or clothed with aciculae; marked as with needle-scratches.
aciculiform
Needle-shaped.
aciculilignosa
An evergreen and deciduous needle-leaved vegetation.
aciculine
Sharp and pointed like a needle.
aciculite
In mineralogy, needle ore: acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals.
aciculum (s), acicula (pl)
1. A needle-like spine or bristle, as is present in certain types of worms or flagellates.
2. A projecting cluster of bristles or setae found in certain annelid worms or a fingerlike or handlike bristle seen in certain flagellate protozoa.
3. In zoology, one of the slender, sharp stylets embedded in the parapodia of certain annelid worms, as the polychaetes.
4. 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.
acierate
To convert into steel; literally, "point of iron".
acies
1. Battle array, the front of an army line of battle; from Roman antiquity.
2. The keen attention or aim, of the eye, ear, etc. when fully directed towards any object.
aciform
Needle-shaped or in the form of a needle.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "sour, sharp": acerb-; aceto-; acid-; acuto- (not "sour"); oxy-; pung- (not "sour").


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