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Meaning of "acicula" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACICULA

New Latin, diminutive of acus needle.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACICULA

acicula  [əˈsɪkjʊlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACICULA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acicula is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACICULA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of acicula in the English dictionary

The definition of acicula in the dictionary is a needle-shaped part, such as a spine, prickle, or crystal.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACICULA


acicular
əˈsɪkjʊlə
articular
ɑːˈtɪkjʊlə
auricular
ɔːˈrɪkjʊlə
curricular
kəˈrɪkjʊlə
diverticular
ˌdaɪvəˈtɪkjʊlə
extracurricular
ˌɛkstrəkəˈrɪkjʊlə
fascicular
fəˈsɪkjʊlə
follicular
fɒˈlɪkjʊlə
interfascicular
ˌɪntəfəˈsɪkjʊlə
intrafascicular
ˌɪntrəfəˈsɪkjʊlə
matricula
məˈtrɪkjʊlə
ossicular
ɒˈsɪkjʊlə
particular
pəˈtɪkjʊlə
perpendicular
ˌpɜːpənˈdɪkjʊlə
testicular
tɛsˈtɪkjʊlə
vehicular
vɪˈhɪkjʊlə
ventricular
vɛnˈtrɪkjʊlə
versicular
vɜːˈsɪkjʊlə
vesicula
vɛˈsɪkjʊlə
vesicular
veˈsɪkjʊlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACICULA

achy
aciculae
acicular
aciculate
aciculated
aciculum
acid
acid anhydride
acid drop
acid dye
acid freak
acid halide
Acid House
Acid House party
acid jazz
acid rain
acid reflux
acid rock
acid salt
acid soil

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACICULA

auricula
bacula
Canicula
cicatricula
clavicula
corbicula
cubicula
curricula
cuticula
diverticula
Dracula
febricula
inocula
lodicula
macula
navicula
reticula
silicula
spicula
vincula

Synonyms and antonyms of acicula in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «acicula» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACICULA

Find out the translation of acicula to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acicula from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acicula» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

acicula
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acicula
570 millions of speakers

English

acicula
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

acicula
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

acicula
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

acicula
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acicula
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

acicula
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acicula
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Akikula
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

acicula
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

acicula
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

acicula
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Acicula
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

acicula
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

acicula
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एसिळुला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acicula
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acicula
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

acicula
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

acicula
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acicula
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

acicula
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

acicula
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nålformig partikel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

acicula
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acicula

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACICULA»

The term «acicula» is normally little used and occupies the 144.196 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACICULA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acicula» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acicula» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acicula

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACICULA»

Discover the use of acicula in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acicula and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A catalogue of the shells, arranged according to the ...
5238 aberrans, 5239 acicula, 5240 " var., Pfr., Muli., 79 Jamaica, 90 Europe, Madeira, 5241 acuta, 5242 " var., Adamsii, adusta, 5243 alabaster, 5244 " var., alba, albolineata, 5245 algira, 5246 " var., Lam., 21 Africa, Sierra Leone, Pfr., ...
John Clarkson Jay, 1852
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A catalogue of the shells, arranged according to the ...
138. 5239 acicula, Müll., 90 Europe, Drap. Moll., pi. 4, f. 25, 26. Buccinum acicula, Müll. 5240 " var., Madeira, Rossm., f. 658. Buccinum terrestre, Mont. Gmel., p. 3653, N. 120. Helix octona, Gmel. Stud, in Coxe Trav. Helix acicula, Stud. Fer., pr.
John Clarkson Jay, 1852
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A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British ...
ACHATINA Acicula. Shell slender, smooth, polished, white, with six flat volutions : the lower one as long as all the others. Achatina Acicula. Lam. vi. ii. p.133. Bulimus Acicula. Drap. p. 75. t. 4./. 25, 26. . Brard, p. 100. t. 3.f. 21. Buccinum terrestre.
William Turton, 1831
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Channel Island Marine Molluscs: An Illustrated Guide to the ...
Eulimella affinis: Ansted and Latham (1862), p.215: Gu. Odostomia acicula: Jeffreys (1858): p.129: Gu (Lukis jun., Jeffreys). |Marquand (1901), p.82: Gu ( Marshall); Al (very rare, Marquand). Odostomia acicula var. obeliscus: Marquand (1901), ...
Paul Chambers, 2008
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXII
Setae calcareous, sometimes heavily calcified. Notosetae simple, bifurcate; ringent setae present or absent; bifurcate and needle-shaped acicula sometimes present Neurosetae simple, bifurcate, with long prong generally smooth to serrated; ...
Stephen Cairns, 1993
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Acicula Palaestinensis
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from ...
Each lobe typically contains a bundle of slender, projecting, chitinous setae' and a larger, dark, internal spine or acicula (plates 128C, 128D, 130A). The shape, size, number, and position of setae are important in classification. Arising from the ...
Sol Felty Light, James T. Carlton, 2007
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A Manual of the Land And Fresh-Water shells of the British ...
racters so nearly allied. The only British species forms a very distinct section, perhaps genus, from the larger exotic kinds. a. ACICULA Nilson. * The shell turreted, polished, transparent; month 015long, rather narrow' ; upper tentacles subulate, ...
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Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta ...
Acicula (ac) within a parapodium. (B) Proscoloplos cygnochaetus. Notopodial supportive chaeta (sc) protruding far above bodysurface. (C,D) Apistobranchus typicus. (C) tip of neuropodial supportive chaeta (sc) lays apart of the chaetal bundle ...
Thomas Bartolomaeus, Günter Purschke, 2006
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Acicula Norrisi
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACICULA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acicula is used in the context of the following news items.
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Set in stone
... a tianhuang stone, sometimes it flows well with its stone texture, but sometimes in the next cut it may have a black acicula resulting in a flaw.". «China Daily, Sep 12»

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