microblade

Or mi·cro-blade

[mahy-kruh-bleyd]

noun

1. bladelet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of microblade¹

First recorded in 1965–70; micro- + blade

Example Sentences

He told BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark about how the "mummified fingertips" caused him so much pain that when he returned to the UK from an expedition he cut them off with a microblade.

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As for the microblade technologies that Mellars attributes to a wave of later migrants, Petraglia argues that a long-established population of modern humans developed the new tools on their own.

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