Stream of emotional, creative impulse strong enough and hot enough to thaw the classical icebergs till not a floating spiculum of them is left. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
Refining on the more delicate sound of stipes, the Latins got 'stipula,' the thin stem of straw: which rustles and ripples daintily in verse, associated with spica and spiculum, used of the sharp pointed ear of corn, and its fine processes of fairy shafts. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
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