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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spiculate .
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Examples
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The physician took notice of his breathing hard, and his mouth being open; and from these diagnostics declared, that the liquidum nervosum was intimately affected, and the saliva impregnated with the spiculated particles of the virus, howsoever contracted.
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The thickened, spiculated leaves of lungwort rustled impatiently at my feet, calling me without words.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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His arthritis turned his young, smooth, round elbow joints into abnormally spiculated and roughened snowballs on the radiographs—indeed, the worst case I had ever seen.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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His arthritis turned his young, smooth, round elbow joints into abnormally spiculated and roughened snowballs on the radiographs—indeed, the worst case I had ever seen.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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The thickened, spiculated leaves of lungwort rustled impatiently at my feet, calling me without words.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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_Asclepias tuberosa_, with fiery red umbels, the strong-scented _Monarda fistulosa_, and an umbelliferous plant, the grass-like, spiculated leaves of which recall to mind the Southern Agaves, the _Eryngo.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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"the fleecy care"; of fishes as "the scaly tribe"; and of a picket fence as a "spiculated paling."
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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