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hispid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɪspɪd/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (qualifier:obsolete outside biology) Covered in short, stiff hairs.
   • 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. 1875, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India, Volume 1, L. Reeve & Co., page 157:
   • 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 sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 235:
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

spiky · spiny

Deriveds

hispid cotton rat · hispidulin · hispid starburr · hispidate · hispid pocket mouse · hispid hare · hispidulous · hispidity

Synonyms

bristly

Translations (9)

ca híspid (covered in short, stiff hairs) · bg бодлив (covered in short, stiff hairs) · pl szczeciniasty (covered in short, stiff hairs) · es híspido (covered in short, stiff hairs) · it ispido (covered in short, stiff hairs) · fi jäykkäkarvainen (covered in short, stiff hairs) · bg четинест (covered in short, stiff hairs) · pl kosmaty (covered in short, stiff hairs) · fr hispide (covered in short, stiff hairs)