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Spicknel
- - An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.
Spicules
- noun - small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Spidered
- - Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.
Spiffier
- adjective - Adjective: (informal) Dapper; fine or neat, especially in style of clothing or other appearance.
- marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
Spikelet
- noun - a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
Spindles
- noun - (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"
- a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
- a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object; "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
Spinifex
- - A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. Spinifex hirsutus (black grass) and Spinifex longifolius are useful as sand binders. Spinifex paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus.
Spinster
- noun - an elderly unmarried woman
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Spirifer
- - Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.