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Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.

al body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.

Covered with minute spiculæ, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.

A minute, slender granule, or point.

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the a rays are thus rendered visible. -- Spin*thar`i*scop"ic (#), a.

A minute spine. Dana.

One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers. Gray.

One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.

internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.

as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak.

He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. Sir W. Scott.

er Rood. -- Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. -- Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed…

Minutely stellate.

A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

intervals and repeatedly; continually; ever and anon; now and then. And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time. Shak.

One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.