Vocabulary : Spherosome to Sphingid
Spherosome : The body wall of any radiate animal.
Spherulate : Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.
Spherule : A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.
Spherulite : A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.
Spherulitic : Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.
Sphery : Round; spherical; starlike. ;; Of or pertaining to the spheres.
Sphex : Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand.
Sphigmometer : See Sphygmometer.
Sphincter : A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. ;; Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.
Sphingid : A sphinx. ;; Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae.
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