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▪ I. † ˈspiculate, v. Obs.
[In sense 1 f. L. spīculāt-, ppl. stem of spīculāre to point; in sense 2 f. L. spīculum sharp point, arrow, ray, etc.]
1. trans. To sharpen to a point. rare—0.
1623Cockeram ii, To make a sharp Point to a thing, spiculate.
2. To pierce or transfix. rare—1.
1834Southey Doctor lxxxvii. (1848) 191 In those representations [in old almanacks] man..stood erect and naked, spiculated by emitted influences from the said signs.
▪ II. spiculate, a. Bot.|ˈspɪkjʊlət|
[ad. L. spīculāt-us, pa. pple. of spīculāre to point.]
(See quot.)
1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 395. 1856 Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 178 Spiculate,..where a surface is covered with fine pointed fleshy appendages. Also..when a spike is composed of several smaller spikes (or rather spikelets) crowded together. |