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- English Word Spiciferous Definition Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate.
- English Word Spiciform Definition Spike-shaped.
- English Word Spicily Definition In a spicy manner.
- English Word Spiciness Definition The quality or state of being spicy.
- English Word Spicing Definition of Spice
- English Word Spick Definition A spike or nail.
- English Word Spicknel Definition An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.
- English Word Spicose Definition Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.
- English Word Spicosity Definition The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn.
- English Word Spicous Definition See Spicose.
- English Word Spicula Definition A little spike; a spikelet.
- English Word Spicula Definition A pointed fleshy appendage.
- English Word Spicula Definition of Spiculum
- English Word Spiculae Definition of Spicula
- English Word Spicular Definition Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
- English Word Spiculate Definition Covered with, or having, spicules.
- English Word Spiculate Definition Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.
- English Word Spiculate Definition To sharpen to a point.
- English Word Spicule Definition A minute, slender granule, or point.
- English Word Spicule Definition Same as Spicula.
- English Word Spicule Definition Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
- English Word Spiculiform Definition Having the shape of a spicule.
- English Word Spiculigenous Definition Producing or containing spicules.
- English Word Spiculispongiae Definition A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
- English Word Spiculum Definition Same as Spicule.
- English Word Spicy Definition Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
- English Word Spicy Definition Producing, or abounding with, spices.
- English Word Spicy Definition Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
- English Word Spider Definition Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.
- English Word Spider Definition Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).