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spicule
English
Etymology
From Latin sp?culum.
Noun
spicule (plural spicules)
- A sharp, needle-like piece.
- A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials
- (biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
- 1860, Recreative Science (page 110)
- Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?
- 1860, Recreative Science (page 110)
- A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
- (astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
- A small spike of flowers.
Translations
Anagrams
- Pulices, clipeus
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macrospicule
English
Etymology
macro- +? spicule
Noun
macrospicule (plural macrospicules)
- (astronomy) A very large-scale spicule
Anagrams
- microcapsule
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