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TRICHITE
1. A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, general in obsidian.
2. A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in determined sponges.
Trichite sheaf, one of the little sheaflike fascicles of slender setae quality of determined sponges.
Origin: Gr, hair.
Source: Websters Vocabulary