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SPICULUM (spicula)
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Irregular inflected form: spicula
Dictionary entry overview: What does spiculum mean?
• SPICULUM (noun)
The noun SPICULUM has 1 sense:
1. small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Familiarity information: SPICULUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
spicule; spiculum
Hypernyms ("spiculum" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
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