hispid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈhɪspɪd/
Definition of hispid
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Covered in short, stiff hairs.
“The hispid hare inhabits forested areas.”
“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.”
“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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Etymology
From Latin hispidus (“rough, hairy, bristly”).
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