Spike - Biology

Biology

  • Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
  • Spike (database) biological database
  • Alabama spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
  • Brother spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
  • Diffraction spike, lines radiating from bright light sources in reflecting telescope images
  • False spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
  • Fern spike, the occurrence of abundant fern spores in the fossil record, usually immediately (in a geological sense) after an extinction event

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