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Spicule

noun
1.
Small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals.  Synonym: spiculum.






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"Spicule" Quotes from Famous Books



... strike you, Bertie, as being a very eerie thing? It is a disease of the soul. To think that you may have a man of noble mind, full of every lofty aspiration, and that a gross physical cause, such as the fall of a spicule of bone from the inner table of his skull on to the surface of the membrane which covers his brain, may have the ultimate effect of turning him into an obscene creature with every bestial attribute! That a man's ...
— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro



Words linked to "Spicule" :   outgrowth, process, spiculum, appendage



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