How To Use needle-shaped In A Sentence
- Most cultivars, particularly the dasheens, contain oxalic acid (0. 1-0.4 per cent fresh weight) mainly in the form of 'raphides', ie bunches of needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate embedded in the tissues. Chapter 32
- Primarily artifacts of the 1950s, rocketship movies inevitably featured square-jawed American heroes, evil villains (who were more than likely Godless Commies) and sleek, cigar-shaped craft fitted out with graceful, backswept fins and needle-shaped antennae at the nose. Simple Tricks and Nonsense: March 2004 Archives
- It accumulates in the body, eventually forming needle-shaped crystals in the fluid in and around the joints.
- The crystals were yellow-brown aggregates of needle-shaped structures that simulated haystacks.
- In monocots, calcium oxalate is most often laid down and usually as bundles of needle-shaped crystals known as raphides.
