spicular

English

Etymology

spicule +‎ -ar

Adjective

spicular (comparative more spicular, superlative most spicular)

Of, pertaining to, or formed from spicules.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 158:
  Lung cancer, for instance, might start as a spicular nodule in the lung.

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