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glochids

glochids is the plural of glochid.

Meaning of glochid

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

Questions about glochids

What is glochids the plural of?
Glochids is the plural of glochid.

Words near glochids in the dictionary

  1. glochidian
  2. glochidiate
  3. glochidium
  4. glochidone
  5. glochidonol
  6. glochids
  7. glock
  8. Glock switch
  9. Glock switches
  10. glockenspiel
  11. glockenspielist

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