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What is the adjective for lancets?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs lance, lancet, lanch and lancinate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lanceolate

(botany) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
(technical) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
Synonyms:

pointed, sharp, acuminate, peaked, tapered, cuspidate, spired, tapering, tipped, pointy, edged, aciculate, spiked, acicular, piked, acute, keen, fine, jagged, barbed, spiky, acuminous, conical, arrowlike, conoid, mucronate, sagittal, sagittate, conic, pronged, subulate, cornered, aculeate, cusped, spearlike, cone-shaped, needle-like, sharp-edged, sharp-cornered, spear-like, spear-shaped, V-shaped, wedge-shaped, diminished, dwindling, thin, thinning, narrowing, pyramidal, taper … more

Examples:

“The leaf laminae of Q. serrata were lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5-15 cm long and 1-3 cm wide.”

“A few cultivars from the United States and Asia have distinctive narrow or lanceolate leaflets.”

“A tapering, strongly lanceolate to ovate frond attached to a basal disc by a cylindrical stem.”

lancinating

(especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.
Synonyms:

honed, edged, jagged, pointed, sharpened, whetted, keen, cuspidate, peaked, serrated, acute, spiked, acuate, unblunted, tipped, aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, fine, horned, needlelike, piercing, pointy, pronged, gnawing, prickly, salient, shooting, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, knifelike, knife-edged, keen-edged, razor-sharp, needle-pointed, sharp-edged, ground fine, sharp, cutting … more

Examples:

“The lancinating pain in his chest intensified with every breath as he clutched his heart in agony.”

lanceolated

Alternative form of lanceolate

lanciform

Having the form of a lance.

lanceolar

(botany) lanceolate
Synonyms:

tapering, pointed, tapered, sharp, acuminate, conic, conical, lanceolate, pyramidal, taper, wedged, acuminous, fusiform … more

lancelike

Resembling a lance.

lanceless

Without a lance.

lancely

Like a lance.

lanced

simple past tense and past participle of lance
Synonyms:

pierced, stabbed, impaled, spiked, speared, punctured, gored, skewered, sticked, stuck, jabbed, transfixed, harpooned, penetrated, pricked, cut, spitted, spat, transpierced, pecked, slashed, pinked, picked, gashed, slit, slitten, bored, bore, incised, sliced, nicked, notched, hacked, ran through, run through, cut open, cut into, stuck into, sliced open, sliced into, perforated, thrust, bayoneted, bayonetted, gouged, thrusted, knifed, wound, wounded, drilled … more

lancing

present participle of lance
Synonyms:

lanceted

simple past tense and past participle of lancet

lanceting

present participle of lancet

lanched

simple past tense and past participle of lanch

lanching

present participle of lanch

lancinated

simple past tense and past participle of lancinate

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