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
The whole surface is uniformly covered with short compressed calcareous spicula embedded in the cuticle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
We can, for example, converge a powerful luminous beam upon a surface covered with hoar frost, without melting a single spicula of the crystals.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
I pray you note that for many a day his carpet hath been the spicula of pine, and his atmosphere hath been perfumed by the fir-tree.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
The silicious particles which constitute this mud, are derived, in part, from the diatomaceous plants and radiolarian animals which throng the surface, and, in part, from the spicula of sponges which live at the bottom.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
