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These spiculae, or darts, will remain unaltered on the glass for some months.

From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various

We have frequently observed this descent of minute icy spiculae when the sky appears perfectly clear, and could even perceive that its silent but continued action added to the snowy covering of the ground.

From The Journey to the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Glance at these then fringed all round with needles and spiculae inches long; the leaf itself is a shimmering green, dusted over with a frosty down.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

Having collected the venom carefully on a piece of glass, he examined it with a microscope, and found it to consist of sharp, saline spiculae, of a reticular appearance, extremely minute.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 by Various