hispid
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of hispid
1640–50; < Latin hispidus rough, shaggy; akin to hirsute
Example Sentences
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R. Virgínica, L. Stem square, with wing-like angles; leaves oval-lanceolate, sessile, acute; calyx-tube and pedicels more or less hispid with gland-tipped hairs; petals bright purple.—Sandy swamps; coast of Maine to Fla., west to northern N. Y.,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Others have hispid awns by which they would become attached to the feathers of birds, and there is no doubt this is an effective mode of dispersal.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
P. 3-7 cm. more or less fan-shaped, whitish or yellowish-buff, cuticle gelatinous, rather hispid; g. anastomosing behind, white then reddish, veined; s. 1-3 cm. reddish, hispid; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 5-7 cm. obtuse, honey colour, hispid with crowded simple black fibrils; g. dingy yellow; s. bulbous, with a lax reticulation of black fibrils; sp. ——. arenatus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Low, hirsute and hispid, not canescent; heads small.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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