Definitions for speculum

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speculum spec·u·lum

Spelling: [spek-yuh-luh m]

IPA: /ˈspɛk yə ləm/

Speculum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in speculum (celmpsuu).

Definitions for speculum

noun

1. a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
2. speculum metal.
3. Surgery. an instrument for rendering a part accessible to observation, as by enlarging an orifice.
4. Ornithology. a lustrous or specially colored area on the wings of certain birds.

Origin of speculum

1590-1600; Latin: mirror, equivalent to spec(ere) to look, behold + -ulum instrumental suffix; see -ule

Examples for speculum

Rest of body brown with a green patch or speculum in the wing.

It is finished on the speculum itself with a little flour of emery.

But speculum metal is a material of a very intractable description.

I examined the ear with the speculum and found nothing in it.

The speculum had, consequently, not cooled uniformly, and hence the fracture had resulted.

Four editions of the "speculum" are known, two in Dutch and two in Latin.

“Unmasking of all popish priests,” &c., and “speculum Jesuiticum,” which abound in details to their disadvantage.

In optics, the deviation of the rays of light from the true focus, when inflected by a lens or speculum.

The above process may be employed for speculum metal, or pitch may be used.

That of the great Rosse speculum was no less than four tons.