spicula
Americannoun
plural
spiculaeEtymology
Origin of spicula
1740–50; < New Latin spīcula, Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin spīc ( a ) ear of grain + -ula -ule
Example Sentences
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It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
When nearly on the crest of the Portillo, we were enveloped in a falling cloud of minute frozen spicula.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
Iudicioque prius ne quis mal� damnet iniquo, Qu� sunt auctoris munera mira Dei: Eripit ipse suis prim�m tela hostibus, inque Mittentis torquet spicula rapta caput.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Sed et spicula, qu� in eam coniecta fuerant, eluso mittentis conatu l�sionis irrita resultabant.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
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