Definitions for spicule

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spicule spic·ule

Spelling: [spik-yool]

IPA: /ˈspɪk yul/

Spicule is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in spicule (ceilpsu).

Definitions for spicule

noun

1. a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
2. Zoology. one of the small, hard, calcareous or siliceous bodies that serve as the skeletal elements of various marine and freshwater invertebrates.
3. Astronomy. a jet of gas several hundred miles in diameter rising from the sun's surface to heights of 3000 to 6000 miles (4800 to 9600 km).

Origin of spicule

1775-85; Latin spīculum spearhead, arrowhead, bee stinger, equivalent to spīc(a) ear of grain (see spica) + -ulum -ule

Examples for spicule

Spic′ūlum, a spicule; Spike′bill, a merganser, a sawbill: the marbled godwit.

He had found, too, that all matter—every spicule of it—is exhausted in the relation.

The shaft of the spicule is generally slender and of considerable length.

The spores soon become free, but the spicule often still adheres to them; but they are not attached to the intermingled filaments.

The spicule thus resembles a little trumpet resting on its mouth.