All acicula synonyms

noun acicula

• point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
• apex — An Apex or an Apex ticket is a ticket for a journey by air or rail which costs less than the standard ticket, but which you have to book a specified period in advance.
• mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
• mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
• acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
• barb — A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
• beak — A bird's beak is the hard curved or pointed part of its mouth.
• bill — A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
• cape — A cape is a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast.
• claw — The claws of a bird or animal are the thin, hard, curved nails at the end of its feet.
• cusp — any of the small elevations on the grinding or chewing surface of a tooth
• dagger — A dagger is a weapon like a knife with two sharp edges.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• headland — a promontory extending into a large body of water.
• jag — a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge: a crying jag; a talking jag.
• prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
• promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
• prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• spine — the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
• spire — a coil or spiral.
• spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
• summit — a city in NE New Jersey.
• sword — a weapon having various forms but consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved blade, sharp-edged on one or both sides, with one end pointed and the other fixed in a hilt or handle.
• thorn — German name of Toruń.
• tine — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
• tooth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
• awn — any of the bristles growing from the spikelets of certain grasses, including cereals
• foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
• nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
• sticker — a person or thing that sticks.
• stiletto — a short dagger with a blade that is thick in proportion to its width.