Definitions for Spirula

Spirula spir·u·la

Spelling: [spir-yuh-luh, -oo-luh
IPA: /ˈspɪr yə lə, -ʊ lə/

Spirula is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in Spirula (ailprsu).

Definitions for Spirula

noun

  1. any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.

Origin of Spirula

1825-35; New Latin; Late Latin spīrula twisted cake. See spira, -ule

Examples for Spirula

A mollusk whose shell is cast upon the shore by thousands, but the animal of which is very rare, is the spirula.

In places in New Zealand, and elsewhere, large fossil deposits of spirula peroni occur.

A series of Chambers joining each other, as in Nautilus, spirula, &c.

The E. spirula of certain Brazilian monkeys and of the Barbary ape bears a strong resemblance to the species from the hog.

The latter is partly straight and partly convoluted, nearly as in spirula.

After a gale, on looking amongst the wrack cast up by the highest waves, large numbers of our spirula will be found.

In the living Dibranchiata other than spirula the phragmacone and rostrum have become very rudimentary.

They originate at the aboral extremity where they remain in spirula (fig. 18).

Word Value for Spirula
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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