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SPICULUM (spicula)

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 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 coralsplay

  Familiarity information: SPICULUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPICULUM (noun)


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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