Crossword-Solution: SPICULES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPICULES | anagram | SLICESUP |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SPICULES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sponge skeleton parts | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SPICULES (5)
And do not forget, lastly, to ask, whether at Liverpool or at the British Museum, for the Holtenias and their congeners,—hollow sponges built up of glassy spicules, and rooted in the mud by glass hairs, in some cases between two and three feet long, as flexible and graceful as tresses of snow-white silk.
Small spicules of bone were removed, and a cloth was placed on the battered skull to receive the discharges for the inspection of the surgeon, who on his arrival saw at least two tablespoonfuls of cerebral substance on this cloth.
Urine was afterward voided through the left pubic opening, and spicules of bone were discharged for two years afterward; ultimate recovery ensued.
Presently, too, a new wonder for a midsummer afternoon--a snow scene all around, and spicules of ice settling and remaining frozen on the coatsleeve.
Other theorists have explained the aurora as due to the accumulation of electricity on clouds or on spicules of ice in the upper air.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).