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hispid

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

hispid (comparative more hispid, superlative most hispid)

  1. (obsolete outside biology, botany) Covered in short, stiff hairs.
    Synonym: bristly
    Coordinate terms: spiny, spiky
    The hispid hare inhabits forested areas.
    • 1875, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India, Volume 1, L. Reeve & Co., page 157:
      An erect, branching, hispid or glabrate annual, 1 ft. high. Radical leaves petioled, crowded, spreading on the ground, hispid with white hairs, lobes toothed; cauline entire or pinnatifid.
    • 1886, Asa Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalæ, Volume 2, Part 1, 2nd edition, Smithsonian Institution, page 428:
      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.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hispide or Latin hispidus.

Adjective

hispid m or n (feminine singular hispidă, masculine plural hispizi, feminine/neuter plural hispide)

  1. hispid

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Verb

hispid

  1. second-person plural imperative of hispir

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