aciculate vs pointy

aciculate

adj
  • acicular (needle-shaped) 

  • Furnished with aciculae. 

  • Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. 

pointy

adj
  • Pointed in shape; having a point or points. 

  • In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->). 

noun
  • Any pointed object. 

How often have the words aciculate and pointy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )