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Needle-shaped   /nˈidəl-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Needle-shaped

adjective
1.
Narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves.  Synonyms: acerate, acerose, acicular.






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... not been up from the park at sunrise before, and it was quite glorious, the purple depths of M'Ginn's Gulch, from which at a height of 9,000 feet you look down on the sunlit park 1,500 feet below, lying in a red haze, with its pearly needle-shaped peaks, framed by mountain sides dark with pines—my glorious, solitary, unique mountain home! The purple sun rose in front. Had I known what made it purple I should certainly have gone no farther. Then clouds, the morning mist as I supposed, lifted themselves up rose lighted, ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird



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