different between spinule vs spicule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spinula, diminutive of Latin spina (“a spine”). Compare French spinule.

Noun

spinule (plural spinules)

1. A minute spine.
   • c. 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea

     Alongside of the pairs, there is often another smaller spinule, on one side or both, sometimes a second; and rarely, there are scattered spinules upon the surface between

Anagrams

• Lupiens, line ups, line-ups, lines up, lineups, lupines, pinules, unpiles, up lines, up-lines, uplines

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spinule]

Noun

spinule m

1. vocative singular of spin

English

Etymology

From Latin sp?culum.

Noun

spicule (plural spicules)

1. A sharp, needle-like piece.
2. A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials
3. (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?

4. A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
5. (astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
6. A small spike of flowers.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pulices, clipeus