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aciculum

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a⋅cic⋅u⋅lum

[uh-sik-yuh-luhm]
–noun, plural -lums, -la [-luh] .
1. an acicula.
2. Zoology. one of the slender, sharp stylets embedded in the parapodia of certain annelid worms, as the polychaetes.

Origin:
alter. of acicula
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