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Spicules are any of various small needle-like anatomical structures occurring in organisms
Spicule may also refer to:
- Spicule (sponge), small skeletal elements of sea sponges
- Spicule (nematode), reproductive structures found in male nematodes (roundworms)
- Spicule (solar physics), jets of solar material from the Sun
- Spicule (glass manufacture), glass flakes formed in the production of glass vials.
See also
edit- Ossicle, any various small bones
- Process (anatomy), any outgrowths of tissue
- Sclerite, hardened body parts of invertebrates
- Spikelet, the inflorescence of grasses
- Stylet (anatomy), a piercing structure
- Tubercle, wart-shaped outgrowths of body tissue
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