Spicula vs Spicule - What's the difference?
spicula | spicule |
A little spike; a spikelet.
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=John Tyndall, title=Six Lectures on Light, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
A pointed fleshy appendage.
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=John Morley, title=Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula , through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries. }}
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A sharp, needle-like piece
(biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
(astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun
A small spike of flowers
As nouns the difference between spicula and spicule
is that spicula is plural of spiculum while spicule is a sharp, needle-like piece.spicula
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