spicula
English
Noun
spicula (plural spiculas or spiculae)
- A little spike; a spikelet.
- 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861:
- And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described,--not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star.
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- A pointed fleshy appendage.
Latin
Noun
spīcula
References
- spicula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spicula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- spicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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