spiculate

English

Etymology

From Latin spiculatus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

spiculate (not comparable)

1. Covered with, or having, spicules.

   Synonym: spiculated

Verb

spiculate (third-person singular simple present spiculates, present participle spiculating, simple past and past participle spiculated)

1. (transitive) To sharpen to a point.
   • 1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden

     with spiculated paling

2. (intransitive) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spiculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Related terms

• spiculation

Anagrams

• capitules, euplastic