spicule
Kelime Anlamı :

1. diken.
2. iğne.
3. iğne gibi şey.
4. spikül.
5. spikul.
6. Küçük, çiviye benzeyen ve özellikle kemiklerde bulunan oluşumlara verilen isim.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. A small needlelike structure or part, such as one of the silicate or calcium carbonate processes supporting the soft tissue of certain invertebrates, especially sponges.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A minute, slender granule, or point.
2. same as Spicula.
3. any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A fine-pointed body resembling a needle: as, ice -spicules.
2. in botany:
3. A spikelet.
4. one of the small projections or points on the basidia of hymenomycetous fungi which bear the spores. there are usually four to each basidium. see sterigma.
5. in zoology, a hard, sharp body like a little spike, straight or curved, rod-like, or branched, or diversiform; a spiculum; a sclere: variously applied, without special reference to size or shape.
6. in botany, the empty frustule of a diatom.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
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