spatula
noun
an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
spatulae
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pluralof spatula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Geckos’ toes are covered with hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs known as setae, with each seta, in turn, branching into hundreds of tiny, flat, triangular tips called spatulae.
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Although dispersion forces are very weak, the total attraction over millions of spatulae is large enough to support many times the gecko’s weight.
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Alex Greaney and Congcong Hu at Oregon State University described how geckos can achieve this by changing the angle between their spatulae and the surface.
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The huge numbers of spatulae on its setae provide a gecko, shown in Figure 10.8, with a large total surface area for sticking to a surface.
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The spatulae are sometimes very simply and rudely decorated.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood
