spiculate

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English

Etymology

Latin spiculatus

Adjective

spiculate (not comparable)

  1. Covered with, or having, spicules.

Verb

spiculate (third-person singular simple present spiculates, present participle spiculating, simple past and past participle spiculated)

  1. (transitive) To sharpen to a point.
    • 1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden
      with spiculated paling

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spiculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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