awl-shaped

How to use awl-shaped in a sentence

• Its filaments are brown, pinnate, the branches awl-shaped, and the joints about as long as broad.

  An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William Griffith

• The antenn, which spring from the forehead below the ocelli, are short and awl-shaped.

  The Young Collector's Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragon-flies, Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies | W. Harcourt Bath

• Petioles long with two awl-shaped stipules at the base, and a large violet spot in the axil.

  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de Tavera

• Leaves evergreen, awl-shaped or scale-like, rigid, often of two shapes on the same plant.

  Trees of the Northern United States | Austin C. Apgar

• Resiniferous trees or shrubs, with mostly awl-shaped or needle-shaped and evergreen leaves, and moncious or dicious flowers.

  The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray