This, for example, may be short and conical like a Canary's, awl-shaped like the bill of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bird Study Book] Reference

The leaves, which are produced in tufts, are seven or eight inches in length, erect and cylindrical, or awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

At the base of each tuft, from the apex to 1 ft. or more down the younger branches, there is a fleshy, green, awl-shaped leaf, from 2 in. to 5 in. long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

The leaves are ½in. to 1in. long, pinnate, leaflets awl-shaped, reflexed, and of a deep glistening green colour; they are arranged in minute tufts on stoutish branchlets, and, for the most part, have a single berry at the parent node.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

On examination of the ordinary inflorescence, there will be seen at the base of the upper of two flowers a small rudimentary bract, having a swollen circular or ring-like base, from which proceeds a small awl-shaped process, representing the midrib of an abortive leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The corolla is bell-shaped, the five divisions being deeply cut, which allows the flower to expand well; the calyx is neat and smooth, the segments long and awl-shaped; the flower stalks are short, causing the numerous erect branches to be closely furnished with bloom during favourable weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The green awl-shaped leaves, or needles, provide cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference

Nectary divided in 5 parts, straight, awl-shaped and 2-nerved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

The umbellets are alternate, awl-shaped, with distinct flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

It produces millions of leaves, but every one is awl-shaped -- subulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Forces] Reference

Petioles long with two awl-shaped stipules at the base, and a large violet spot in the axil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Petioles very short, clasping the stem at their base, with 2 intermediate stipules ending in two awl-shaped points.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Calyx double; the outer sepals 8-9 in number, awl-shaped; the inner ones are larger and separate unequally when the flower expands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Common calyx cylindrical, of many imbricated, awl-shaped scales, the lower ones smaller; within are 20 or more hermaphrodite disk-flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

In this genus the fruiting surface is on spine, or awl-shaped processes, which are either simple or in some cases the tips are more or less branched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Leaves mostly opposite, 4-ranked, adherent to the branchlet and completely covering it; keeled in the side pairs and slightly convex in the others, dull green, pointed at apex or triangular awl-shaped, mostly with a minute roundish gland upon the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

In one of these (Fig. 138), the ligneous bracts or scales, narrow and long, and gradually tapering till they assume nearly the awl-shaped form, cluster out thick from the base and middle portions of the cone, and, like the involucral appendages of the hazel-nut, or the sepals of the yet unfolded rose-bud, sweep gracefully upwards to the top, where they present at their margins minute denticulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

It was beautiful -- solemn -- grand -- all in one, that narrow, gloomy, zigzag way between the perpendicular walls; and a naturalist would have spent hours examining the many-tinted sea anemones that opened their rays and awl-shaped tentacles below the water, or lay adhering and quiescent upon the rocks where the tide had fallen, looking some green, some olive, and many more like bosses of gelatinous coagulated blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference

Appearing with the leaves from the season's shoots, sterile flowers from the lower axils, in heads suspended at the end of silky threads 1-2 inches long; calyx campanulate, pubescent, yellowish-green, mostly 6-lobed; petals none; stamens 6-16; anthers exserted; ovary wanting or abortive: fertile flowers from the upper axils, usually single or in pairs, at the end of a short peduncle; involucre 4-lobed, fringed with prickly scales; calyx with six awl-shaped lobes; ovary 3-celled; styles 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

'legs, and tapering or awl-shaped horns or antennae.    From Wordnik.com.  [An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy] Reference

Style short, awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

O. subulata (awl-shaped).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Style same length as stamens, awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Spines awl-shaped, distinct at base, Hydnum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Fungi with awl-shaped teeth or spines, Hydnei.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Style awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Stigmas awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

2 awl-shaped stipules at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Calyx-teeth 8-9, long and awl-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Spines awl-shaped, equal; plant gelatinous, tremulous, Tremellodon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Leaves evergreen, simple, alternate, 2-4 inches long, 1-1/2-3 inches wide, flat when compared with those of the European holly, thickish, smooth on both sides, yellowish-green, scarcely glossy on the upper surface, paler beneath, elliptical, oval or oval-oblong; apex acutish, spine-tipped; base acutish or obtuse; margin wavy and concave between the large spiny teeth, sometimes with one or two teeth or entire; midrib prominent beneath; leafstalks short, grooved; stipules minute, awl-shaped, becoming blackish, persistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

A soft pink; the calyx has eight handsome light green, shining, awl-shaped sepals; the corolla has five to nine petals, equal in size, flatly and evenly arranged, their pointed tips forming the star-like appearance from which the flower takes one of its common names; the flower stalks are exceedingly fine -- thready -- but firm, from 1in. to 3in. long, and each carries but one flower; they issue from the axils of the leaves, which are arranged in whorls of five or seven, and nearly as many blossoms will be produced from the whorl, but seldom more than one, and hardly ever more than two, flowers will be open together, when they occupy the central position of the foliage, which gives the plant an elegant appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference