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glochid

glochid noun: a small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.

Noun

glochid (plural glochids)

  1. A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
    • [The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 29
    Synonyms:
    glochidium

Synonyms of glochid

Forms of glochid

pluralglochids

Origin of glochid

From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb of an arrow”).

Questions about glochid

What does glochid mean?
Glochid means a small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
What part of speech is glochid?
Glochid is a noun.
What is the plural of glochid?
The plural of glochid is glochids.

Words near glochid in the dictionary

  1. glocalizes
  2. glocalizing
  3. glocally
  4. Glocester
  5. Glocestershire
  6. glochid
  7. glochideous
  8. glochidia
  9. glochidial
  10. glochidian
  11. glochidiate

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