spiculaEtymologyBorrowed from Latin spīcula.nounA little spike; a spikelet or spiculum.“He concludes this Diſſertation, by endeavouring to explain the Manner of its [olive oil's] operating, which he attributes to its fat inviſcating Nature, whereby it ſheathes the Spicula of the Poiſon.”A pointed fleshy appendage.“Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.”