combining form, after L. models, of SPICULA, SPICULE, and SPICULUM, occurring in a few Zool. terms, as Spiculiferous a., bearing spicules. Spiculiform a., formed like spicule; sharp-pointed. Spiculigenous a., ‘containing spicules’ (Webster, 1847). Spiculigerous a., spiculiferous.

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1836–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., II. 866/1. In the fourth section, Tubulifera,… the abdomen is furnished … with a *spiculiferous ovipositor.

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1841.  Penny Cycl., XX. 423/2. Many hook-formed spiculiferous lobes.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph., iv. (1848), 36. These *spiculiform organs … are of three kinds. Ibid. (1852), Crust., II. 708. A slender spiculiform process.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., iii. 118. The inner cells … in the meanwhile have become *spiculigerous.

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