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spiculae

spiculae is the plural of spicula.

Meaning of spicula

Noun

spicula (plural spiculas or spiculae)

  1. A little spike; a spikelet or spiculum.
    • He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.1738 December, C. Mortimer, “VI. An Abstract by C. Mortimer, M.D. Secr[etary of the] R[oyal] S[ociety] of an Inaugural Dissertation Published at Wittemberg 1736. by Dr. Abraham Vater, F.R.S....
  2. A pointed fleshy appendage.
    • Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.1904, John Morley, Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson

Questions about spiculae

What is spiculae the plural of?
Spiculae is the plural of spicula.

Words near spiculae in the dictionary

  1. spicose
  2. spicous
  3. spics
  4. spicspeak
  5. spicula
  6. spiculae
  7. spicular
  8. spicularite
  9. spicularitic
  10. spiculas
  11. spiculate

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