spiculum
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Rossiter in this autumn of 1917 was extremely interested in certain crucial experiments he was making with spiculum in sponge-cells; with scleroblasts, "mason-cells," osteoblasts, and "consciousness" in bone-cells.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
When nearly on the crest of the Portillo, we were enveloped in a falling cloud of minute frozen spicula.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
His varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spicula of thought, and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have received and read with interest your paper on the sponge with horny spicula.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
Some of the fibres are thickly covered with extremely minute spicula, occasionally aggregated into little tuffs; and hence they have a hairy appearance.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
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