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Definition of Spiculate
1. a. Covered with, or having, spicules.
2. v. t. To sharpen to a point.
Definition of Spiculate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Spiculate
1.
1. Covered with, or having, spicules.
2.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiculate
Literary usage of Spiculate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"2) are about one-third of the length of the spiculate hairs of . ... In the latter
species, the pupal hairs are a fairly ordinary form of spiculate hair, ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1882)
"In some other forms, the shafts of the cross are spiculate only at the extremities,
and are much more delicate in contour. We meet with others in which the ..."
3. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art by Canadian Institute (1849-1914) (1862)
"... consisting of Sponges with horny skeletons, is likewise divided into seven
sub-orders, accordingly as the skeleton is solid non- spiculate ..."
4. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"Body with thorax finely spiculate ; lateral abdominal hairs in twos after ...
Anal segment longer than wide, ringed by the plate, which is spiculate on its ..."
5. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1908)
"PANICLE erect, up to 7 inches long, sometimes very scanty ; axis terete, smooth ;
branches 2 to 6-nate, filiform, 1-spiculate, purplish, smooth, ..."
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