Assertion: hemlock's needle | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The furrowed bark is brown and the needles are short and soft, not pointed like relatively similar firs and spruce.
text: Needles are short-stalked, attached to a peg-like extension on the twig, and arranged spirally around the twig but those on top and underneath the twig twist so that needles appear to be mostly lateral (2-ranked), giving the branch a flattened appearance.
text: Needles are short (1/2” to 3/4") and thickened in cross section, uniform in color on all sides ranging from dark green to blue-green, and have rounded apexes with short distinctive petioles.
text: Hemlocks are noted for short needles and droopy tops and branches.
text: needles are all very short, but have distinctly different sizes on the same twig.