"spicula" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "spiculum"
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        "plural of spiculum"
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          "spiculum#English"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪkjʊlə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spicula"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spiculas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spiculae",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1738 December, C. Mortimer, “VI. An Abstract by C. Mortimer, M.D. Secr[etary of the] R[oyal] S[ociety] of an Inaugural Dissertation Published at Wittemberg 1736. by Dr. Abraham Vater, F.R.S. Concerning the Cure of the Bite of a Viper, Cured by Sallad-oil.”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXXIX, number 451, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] ; and C. Davis […] ; printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 443",
          "text": "He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861",
          "text": "And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described,--not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, John Tyndall, Six Lectures on Light",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A little spike; a spikelet or spiculum."
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        {
          "ref": "1904, John Morley, Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson",
          "text": "Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.",
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        }
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        "A pointed fleshy appendage."
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      "rhymes": "-ɪkjʊlə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spicula"
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  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861",
          "text": "And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described,--not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1906, John Tyndall, Six Lectures on Light",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A little spike; a spikelet or spiculum."
      ],
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          "text": "Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pointed fleshy appendage."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪkjʊlə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spicula"
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  "pos": "noun",
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