Definition of "spicula" [‖Spic•u•la]

• Plural form of spiculum. (noun)
• A little spike; a spikelet. (noun)
• A pointed fleshy appendage. (noun)

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• "[4023] Irrita vaniloquae quid curas spicula linguae,"
• "In short, all the graces which young ladies and young gentlemen too learn from others, and the many improvements which, by the help of a looking-glass, they add of their own, are in reality those very spicula et faces amoris so of mentioned by Ovid; or, as they are sometimes called in our own language, the whole artillery of love."
• "When nearly on the crest of the Portillo, we were enveloped in a falling cloud of minute frozen spicula."