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Definition: Spicule |
SpiculeNoun1. Small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Spicule \Spic"ule\, noun. [Latin expression spiculum little point, dart.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SpiculeSynonym: spiculum (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When seen many are seen together, Poriferan spicules tend to lood like a mesh-blanket of three-pointed stick-stars.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spicule."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spicule |
| English words defined with "spicule": Amphidisc ♦ Scepterellate, Sexradiate, Spiculiform, Spinii-spirulate ♦ Trichite, Trichite sheaf, Tricurvate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "spicule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spiculum, flammetunge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spicule (spike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nadel (brooch, hook, needle, pin, stylus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόκκοσ (bean, grain, granule, jot), ηλιακοί πίδακες, αιχμή (nib, peak, pin point, point, tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spilla (brooch, needle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 骨片 (bone fragment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "っぺ" (bone fragment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | snaideen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iculespay espícula. (various references) спикула. (various references) espículo, espícula. (various references) spikül, iğne gibi şey, iğne (brooch, injection, jab, needle, pin, pintle, pointer, prick, shot, spine, sting, stinger), diken (barb, briar, brier, prick, pricker, prickle, quill, spine, thorn, thornbush, thorny plant, trichome). (various references) gai nhỏ, gai (sliver, textile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spicule": spicules. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "spicule" (pronounced 'Spic"ule'): Bacule, Batule, Cedule, Cerule, Germule, granule, Hemispherule, Ligule, Limule, lobule, locule, Nodule, Palule, Papule, Perule, Pinule, Plantule, Setule, spherule, Spinule, Sporule, squamule, Stipule, Valvule, Venule, Vocule, Zonule. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cupels, piculs, pileus, sluice, splice. | |
-2 letters: ceils, clips, clues, cupel, epics, ileus, lieus, luces, picul, piles, pilus, plies, puces, pules, pulis, pulse, sculp, sepic, slice, slipe, speil, spice, spiel, spile, sulci. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, clip, clue, cues, cups, cusp, ecus, epic, ices, isle, leis, lice, lies, lieu, lipe, lips, lisp, luce, lues. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: clupeids, spiculae, spicules, surplice. | |
+2 letters: capsulize, clumpiest, clupeoids, insculped, peculiars, pluckiest, poultices, publicise, pulicides, republics, supercoil, surplices. | |
+3 letters: capsulized, capsulizes, compulsive, crumpliest, duplicates, inculpates, opulencies, pediculous, pleustonic, pluckiness, preciously, preclusion, preclusive, publicised, publicises, publicizes, publicness, semipublic, speciously, supercoils, superslick, suppliance, supplicate. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, capitulates, compulsives, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, copulatives, duplicities, encapsuling, epicuticles, lectureship, patchoulies, peculations, pediculates, pediculoses, pediculosis, petulancies, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, preclusions, publicities, putrescible, republicans, resculpting, sepulchring, specularity, speculating, speculation, speculative, spherulitic, supercoiled, superficial, suppliances, supplicated, supplicates, susceptible, susceptibly. | |
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