Spiculate: Definition and part of speech

Spiculate

  1. v. t. To sharpen to a point.
  2. a. Covered with, or having, spicules.
  3. a. Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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