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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a straight cylindrical rhabd at the end of which three prongs or cladisks bent backward make a form like that of an anchor with three arms. It belongs to the tetraxial system of spicules. See spongespicule.

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