Bot. [ad. L. spīculāt-us, pa. pple. of spīculāre to point.] (See quot.)
1832. Lindley, Introd. Bot., 395.
1856. Henslow, Dict. Bot. Terms, 178. Spiculate,… where a surface is covered with fine pointed fleshy appendages. Also … when a spike is composed of several smaller spikes (or rather spikelets) crowded together.
