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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spiculate.

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Examples

  • The physician took notice of his breathing hard, and his mouth being open; and from these diagnostics declared, that the liquidum nervosum was intimately affected, and the saliva impregnated with the spiculated particles of the virus, howsoever contracted.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • The thickened, spiculated leaves of lungwort rustled impatiently at my feet, calling me without words.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • His arthritis turned his young, smooth, round elbow joints into abnormally spiculated and roughened snowballs on the radiographs—indeed, the worst case I had ever seen.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • His arthritis turned his young, smooth, round elbow joints into abnormally spiculated and roughened snowballs on the radiographs—indeed, the worst case I had ever seen.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • The thickened, spiculated leaves of lungwort rustled impatiently at my feet, calling me without words.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • _Asclepias tuberosa_, with fiery red umbels, the strong-scented _Monarda fistulosa_, and an umbelliferous plant, the grass-like, spiculated leaves of which recall to mind the Southern Agaves, the _Eryngo.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • "the fleecy care"; of fishes as "the scaly tribe"; and of a picket fence as a "spiculated paling."

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

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