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Spirulina
Spirulina is dried biomass of blue-green cyanobacteria, chiefly Arthrospira platensis, sold as a dietary supplement; it is 65 to 70 percent protein and was historically harvested by the Aztecs.
Spisula solida
Spisula solida, the thick trough shell or solid surf clam (Linnaeus, 1758), a Mactridae bivalve of eastern Atlantic sandy seabeds; thick white shell to 50 mm, suspension feeder, commercially fished in Portugal and Ireland.
Spisula solidissima
Spisula solidissima, the Atlantic surfclam (also hen clam, bar clam, sea clam), is the largest bivalve of the western North Atlantic, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Hatteras, supporting a U.S. ITQ-managed fishery with a 3.4-million-bushel quota and a northward, climate-driven range shift.
Spisula subtruncata
Spisula subtruncata, the cut trough shell or cut surfclam, is a marine bivalve in the trough shell family Mactridae, buried in silty or muddy sand from Norway to the Mediterranean.
Spit (2025 film)
Spit (2025) is an Australian comedy-crime film by Jonathan Teplitzky and Chris Nyst, a sequel to Gettin' Square, starring David Wenham as Johnny Spitieri, detained on return to Australia; released 6 March 2025.
Spit (card game)
Spit, also called Speed or Slam, is a two-player simultaneous shedding card game using one 52-card deck split 26 each; players race one-rank-up-or-down cards onto two center piles, slap the smaller pile at round end, and win by shedding all cards.
Spit (landform)
Spit (landform): a sand or gravel ridge attached to the mainland at one end, built by longshore drift; also called barrier spit. Distinguished from tombolos and barrier islands by its free distal end, recurved hooks, and river-mouth breaching cycles.
Spitalfields silk
Spitalfields silk is the silk woven from the late 17th to the 19th century in Spitalfields, northeast of the City of London, largely by French Huguenot refugee weavers.
Spitamenes
Spitamenes (اسپیتامنس) was a Central Asian leader who led the last sustained revolt against Alexander the Great in Sogdiana and Bactria from 329 to 328 BC, and was beheaded in 328 BC.
Spitball
The spitball, also known as the spitter, is a baseball pitch doctored with saliva, legal until Major League Baseball banned it before the 1920 season.
Spitbank Fort
Spitbank Fort is a circular 19th-century sea fort in the Solent off Portsmouth, built between 1867 and 1878 and now a scheduled monument and luxury hotel.
Spite and malice
Spite and malice, also called Cat and Mouse and the basis of Skip-Bo, is an American two-player competitive patience card game: players race to shed 20-card pay-off piles onto shared ace-to-queen stacks, with kings wild.
Spite fence
Spite fence: a fence or fence-like structure (including tree rows and hedges) built maliciously to annoy a neighboring owner. Statutory heights vary: 5 feet (Kentucky), 6 feet (Indiana, Massachusetts), 10 feet (California).
Spite house
A spite house is a building constructed or modified to annoy a neighbor or municipality, often blocking light or a view, at cost to its own occupant.
Spithead and Nore mutinies
The Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797 were Royal Navy fleet mutinies off Portsmouth and Sheerness involving about 30,000 sailors; Spithead won a pay raise and pardon, the Nore ended in executions.
Spiticeras
Spiticeras (Uhlig, 1903) is an extinct Tithonian–Berriasian ammonoid genus in family Olcostephanidae, type species Ammonites spitiensis Blanford, known from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, including Neuquén Basin species S. acutum and S. hauthali.
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen, also called West Spitsbergen before 1969, is the largest island of Norway's Svalbard archipelago at 37,673 km², named by Willem Barentsz in 1596, home to Longyearbyen, and governed under the 1920 Svalbard Treaty.
Spittelau incineration plant
The Spittelau incineration plant (Müllverbrennungsanlage Spittelau) is a Vienna waste-to-energy plant run by Wien Energie, known for its colorful Hundertwasser redesign after a 1987 fire.
Spitting cobra
Spitting cobras, Naja spp. and the rinkhals Hemachatus haemachatus, eject venom at enemies' eyes up to about 2.5 m; spitting evolved three times independently with raised PLA2 venom abundance.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image: British satirical puppet sketch show on ITV 1984–1996, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law, and Martin Lambie-Nairn; latex caricatures of Thatcher and others, 15 million peak viewers, BritBox revival 2020, cancelled after two series.
Spitting Image (2020 TV series)
Spitting Image (2020) was a BritBox revival of the British satirical puppet show, led by Roger Law with showrunner Jeff Westbrook, two 10-episode series from October 2020 to December 2021, cancelled in 2022.
Spitting Off the Edge of the World
Spitting Off the Edge of the World is a 2022 Yeah Yeah Yeahs song featuring Perfume Genius, the lead single from Cool It Down, their first release in nine years, Grammy-nominated and climate-themed.
Spitting spider
Spitting spiders (Scytodidae, genus Scytodes) are spiders that spit a zig-zag spray of silk, glue, and venom from modified venom glands to immobilize prey at up to 28.8 m/s; Scytodes thoracica is the common cosmopolitan house species.
Spittoon
A spittoon, also called a cuspidor, is a receptacle for catching spit and chewing-tobacco juice, once common in American saloons until anti-tuberculosis campaigns in the late 1800s.
Spitzenkandidat
Spitzenkandidat (German, lead candidate): EU practice since 2014 in which European parties nominate candidates for Commission President, meant to let the winning party's nominee take the post, applied to Juncker in 2014, bypassed in 2019, and followed in von der Leyen's 2024 re-election.
Spitzer
Spitzer is a four-player trick-taking card game of the Schafkopf/Sheepshead family, played almost only in northeast Michigan (Rogers City, Alpena, Posen). Its 14 trumps include the diamond 7, the 'Spitzer', ranked second between the black queens; first to 42 game points wins.
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope, also called SIRTF, was a NASA infrared observatory launched in 2003 and decommissioned in 2020, best known for revealing seven Earth-size planets around TRAPPIST-1.
Spix's macaw
Spix's macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii, ararinha-azul), a small blue macaw endemic to Brazil's Caatinga, declared Extinct in the Wild in 2019 after the last wild male vanished in 2000; about 360 survive in captivity, with reintroductions since 2022.
Spiza
Spiza (Bonaparte, 1824) is a monotypic cardinalid genus containing only the Dickcissel, Spiza americana, a North American grassland songbird with a namesake song, erratic movements, and winter roosts in Venezuela.
Spizaetus
Spizaetus (Vieillot, 1816) is a genus of four Neotropical forest eagle species, ornatus, tyrannus, melanoleucus, isidori; former Old World hawk-eagles were moved to Nisaetus after molecular phylogenies showed paraphyly.