Definition of Hexact

1. a six-rayed sponge spicule [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexact

hexacid
hexacode
hexacodes
hexaconazole
hexacoordinate
hexacoordinated
hexacoral
hexacorals
hexacore
hexacosane
hexacosanes
hexacosanol
hexacosyl
hexact (current term)
hexactine
hexactinellid
hexactinellids
hexactinelline
hexactines
hexactinia
hexacts
hexacyanoferrate
hexacyanoferrates
hexacycle
hexacycles
hexacyclic
hexad
hexadactylous

Literary usage of Hexact

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1899)
"One of the usual type of sword-shaped hexact. x 56. 9 a, b, c, are respectively enlarged views of the handle, tip of one of the cross pieces and the point, ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... or hexact in which one ray bears oblique lateral teeth or prickles (Fig. 78, 1). ... or hexact ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1900)
"hexactINELLIDA [cf. Titles 5, 15, 34, 35]. SCHULZE, Amer. hexact., describes the following new genera ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"... Rep., hexact., p. 321) that a "skeletal fragment," dredged in lat. 32° 8' 45" N., long. 64° 59' 35" W., from a depth of 1075 fathoms, ..."

5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"... nux, hexact.) the single individuals of the colony can readily be recognized as such (No. 4), whereas in the majority of cases their connection becomes ..."

6. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method by Benjamin Ives Gilman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1918)
"... it's hexact like hour Hemma!" was plainly, by the happy fortune of her close relationship to Hemma, no total stranger to the artist's ideal. ..."

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