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hispid

/ˈhɪspɪd/

hispid adjective: covered in short, stiff hairs.

hispid: covered in short, stiff hairs
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Adjective

hispid (comparative more hispid, superlative most hispid)

  1. (obsolete outside biology) Covered in short, stiff hairs.
    • The hispid hare inhabits forested areas.
    • Sooner the in-ſide of thy hand ſhall grovv / Hiſped, and hairie, ere thy Palm ſhall knovv / A Poſtern-bribe tooke, or a Forked-Fee / To fetter Juſtice, vvhen She might be free.1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Honoured Friend, M. John Weare, Councellour”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be...
    Synonyms:
    bristly

hispid meaning in Tamil

hispid in Tamil

முள்ளமைந்த, வன்தூவியுள்ள, வன்முடியுள்ள

Examples of hispid in a sentence

  • An erect, branching, hispid or glabrate annual, 1 ft. high.1875, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India, Volume 1, L. Reeve & Co., page 157:
  • Larger and stouter, less than a foot high, much branched, roughish-hispid: nutlets dull, with rounded sides, no angles, and a large and deep areola or scar.1886, Asa Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalæ, Volume 2, Part 1, 2nd edition, Smithsonian Institution, page 428:

Synonyms of hispid

Forms of hispid

comparativemore hispid
superlativemost hispid

Origin of hispid

From Latin hispidus (“rough, hairy, bristly”).

Words formed from hispid

Questions about hispid

What does hispid mean?
Hispid means covered in short, stiff hairs.
What is hispid in Tamil?
Hispid in Tamil is முள்ளமைந்த, வன்தூவியுள்ள, வன்முடியுள்ள. See Hispid meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hispid in a sentence?
An erect, branching, hispid or glabrate annual, 1 ft. high.
What part of speech is hispid?
Hispid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce hispid?
Hispid is pronounced /ˈhɪspɪd/.

Words near hispid in the dictionary

  1. Hispanx
  2. Hispasian
  3. Hispasians
  4. hispi
  5. hispi cabbage
  6. hispid
  7. hispidate
  8. hispidated
  9. hispidin
  10. hispidities
  11. hispidity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hispid (page history and authors); hispid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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