noun
Meaning 1
A sharp, needle-like piece.
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spicule
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noun
Meaning 2
A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
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noun
Meaning 5
A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
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Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A small spike of flowers.
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noun
Meaning 7
A unit of mass equal to 125 pounds.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 8
small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spiculum
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Broader terms: process, outgrowth, appendage
History
Etymology
From Latin spīculum.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шип (šip) — sharp, needle-like piece
- Finnish: spikula — sharp, needle-like piece
- German: Nadel — sharp, needle-like piece
- Italian: spicola — sharp, needle-like piece
- Latin: spīculum — sharp, needle-like piece
- Polish: spikula — sharp, needle-like piece
- Russian: спи́кула (spíkula) — sharp, needle-like piece
- Spanish: espícula — sharp, needle-like piece
- Ottoman Turkish: ایكنه (iğne) — sharp, needle-like piece
- Catalan: espícula — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Finnish: spikula — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Finnish: kalkkineulanen — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- French: spicule — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- German: Kalknadel — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Italian: spicola — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Polish: spikula — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Portuguese: espícula — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Romanian: spicul — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Russian: спи́кула (spíkula) — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
- Spanish: espícula — any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges