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Spikelet vs Spicula - What's the difference?

spikelet | spicula |

As nouns the difference between spikelet and spicula

is that spikelet is (botany) a small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge while spicula is or spicula can be a little spike; a spikelet.

spikelet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge

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    spicula

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A little spike; a spikelet.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula , through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries. }} ----