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
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
Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson by John Morley
The last fact, trivial as it appears, assumes immense importance when we learn that to these spicula we must turn for an explanation of the isolated masses of flint which abound in various chalk formations.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
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
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
