needlelike
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈniːdəlˌlaɪk/
:
en forma de aguja
- The evergreen tree is characterized by its needlelike leaves that stay green throughout the year.
Examples
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The border of a cypress dome consists of two species of St. John's-worts, six-foot-tall shrubs with needlelike leaves.
Academic text (1991) -
More than half of the phytoliths we observed were long and needlelike and could be attributed to the vegetative part of grasses, possibly bamboo.
Academic text (1991) -
The snow had resumed falling, needlelike, beating on us, clinging to our eyelashes, burning our skin with cold.
Fiction book (1996) -
Somewhat shorter than these trees is the macaw palm, whose fifteen-foot-tall trunk is densely covered with black, needlelike spines.
Academic text (1995) -
These include needlelike spines, tough fibrous leaves, poisons, mimicry by nonpoisonous plants of poisonous ones, and leaves hidden inside a mass of woody twigs.
Academic text (1990) -
The common name of the plant is derived from its pungent odor and needlelike leaves; it is not related to culinary rosemary, and we suspect its addition to a pot of stew would be unpleasant or toxic.
Academic text (1993) -
The cactus had needlelike spines that made it difficult to touch.
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She admired the needlelike tips of the pine branches as they swayed in the wind.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thing with an edge that can cut or pierce
71
1.0
A thing with a sharp tip
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4.8
Sharp in shape with an angle smaller than ninety degrees
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3.2
Having a very thin end that can prick or cut
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1.8
Ending in a small sharp tip
Long, thin, and pointed like a sewing pin
Long, very thin, and pointed like a needle
A shape that narrows to a sharp point at the end
Thin and pointed like a needle
A shape that is pointed, gets narrow, and ends in a sharp tip
Shaped like a pointed tip that becomes narrow at one end
Having long thin points like a fork
A leaf or part that ends in a sharp point
With a small sharp tip like a stiff hair
Antonyms
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word needlelike comes from joining needle and -like, where needle is the thin sewing tool and -like means 'similar'. So, needlelike describes something very thin and sharp, 'ending in a point like a needle'.