Usually means: Small, needle-like structure, support.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word spicule:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. spicule: Merriam-Webster
  2. spicule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spicule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spicule: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spicule: Vocabulary.com
  6. spicule: Wordnik
  7. spicule: Wiktionary
  8. spicule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spicule (spicula): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spicule: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spicule: Dictionary.com
  12. Spicule (astronomy), Spicule (nematode), Spicule (nematode anatomy), Spicule (solar physics), Spicule (sponge), Spicule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Spicule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. spicule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. spicule: Rhymezone
  16. Spicule: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. spicule: FreeDictionary.org
  18. spicule: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. spicule: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spicule: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spicule: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. spicule: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Spicule: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. spicule: Natural History Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See spicular as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spicule)

noun:  A sharp, needle-like piece.
noun:  A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials
noun:  (biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
noun:  A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
noun:  (astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
noun:  A small spike of flowers.

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