What is "spicules"

Usage examples of "spicules".

The ice over which the men had climbed was clear enough to see into for half a meter or more, and she was wondering whether there were coral spicules in it this high up.

They picked up a pair of spicules each and dragged themselves out of reach of the waves, made sure of the line connecting their suits, waved to the ship, and started away from the sea.

They chilled me so completely that I felt as if needle-fine spicules of ice were forming in my blood and were adhering to the walls of arteries and veins.

Reverend Starbuck answered as he shook spicules of broken glass from the folds of the flag.

The spicules of flame leaping from the rim, how high into the perpetual darkness did they fly, a billion miles, five billion?

There was no means other than rubbing on something softer than the glass, until the glass itself shed enough spicules to complete the task.

The gene chains were wrapped around long spires or spicules that emerged radially from a dense central knot.