spicule

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sharp, needle-like piece.
  2. A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
  3. Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
    — Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?
  4. A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
  5. A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
  6. A small spike of flowers.
  7. A unit of mass equal to 125 pounds. historical

词形变化

spicules plural

词汇关系

衍生词
macrospicule spicular spiculiferous spiculiform spiculigenous spiculite

词源

From Latin spīculum.
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