Spicule

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small needlelike structure or part, such as one of the silicate or calcium carbonate processes supporting the soft tissue of certain invertebrates, especially sponges.
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  • n. A sharp, needle-like piece
  • n. Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
  • n. A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun
  • n. A small spike of flowers
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A minute, slender granule, or point.
  • n. Same as Spicula.
  • n. Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fine-pointed body resembling a needle: as, ice -spicules.
  • n. In botany:
  • n. A spikelet.
  • n. One of the small projections or points on the basidia of hymenomycetous fungi which bear the spores. There are usually four to each basidium. See sterigma.
  • n. In zoology, a hard, sharp body like a little spike, straight or curved, rod-like, or branched, or diversiform; a spiculum; a sclere: variously applied, without special reference to size or Shape.
  • n. In botany, the empty frustule of a diatom.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    process    appendage    outgrowth   
    Variant
    spicula   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prickle   
     
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