Hispid

Word HISPID
Character 6
Hyphenation his pid
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Hispid"

What do we mean by hispid?

Covered with stiff or rough hairs; bristly. adjective

Hairy; rough; shaggy; bristly.

Specifically— In botany, having strong hairs or bristles; beset with stiff bristles.

In entomology, closely covered with small angular prominences; rough with minute spines or very rigid bristles.

Rough with bristles or minute spines. adjective

Beset with stiff hairs or bristles. adjective

Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly. adjective

(of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles adjective

(obsolete outside biology) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly.

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The word "hispid" in example sentences

These include the Sumatran striped rabbit, hispid hare, Amami rabbit and the Annamite striped rabbit, only discovered by scientists in 1995. ❋ AP (2011)

The distribution and status of the hispid hare Caprolagus hispidus - with some additional notes on the pigmy hog Sus salvinius. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hundreds of trees have been felled and the habitats of endangered species such as golden langur, hispid hare and pygmy hog, have been put at risk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

- The Biology and Conservation of the Pigmy Hog Sus salvanius and the hispid hare Capriolagus hispidus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is also the single most important site for the survival of golden langur, pygmy hog and hispid hare. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Several endangered mammalian herbivores are also present, including the Asiatic wild buffalo and the near-endemic hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) (Table 1). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Species such as the hispid hare and pygmy hog are found in these grasslands, especially in the soft soils and muddy areas along the river courses. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of these, the pygmy hog and the hispid hare are confined to the grassland habitats. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As the resolute propounders of intermittent jocularity strode onward toward the beckoning sunset, accompanied by a hulking and perplexed mass of hair that lumbered after them on legs like hispid tree trunks, and one brooding black cat of striking size and grace, the Gogloyyik lifted its outlandish cranium and watched them go, not overlooking a chance to fenegrate the sookstrum that unexpectedly darted between its legs. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

Pigmy hog and hispid hare: further observations of the continuing decline (or, a lament for Barnadi and a good cause for skepticism). ❋ Unknown (1983)

The _leaf-sheaths_ are loose, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, or glabrous, with mouth contracted. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is scabrid, deeply channelled at the back, nerveless, narrowly truncate at the tip, and hispid near the apex. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is narrow, linear-oblong, truncate or rounded, somewhat brown, many-nerved, hispid, with incurved margins and membranous tip. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _second glume_ is chartaceous, distinctly awned, the _awn_ being as long as the glume or longer, hispid above and at the sides also. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is chartaceous, laterally compressed, obscurely 4-nerved, glabrous below, hispid near the apex, minutely 2-toothed or not at the apex, not awned or rarely with a short awn. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _second glume_ is as long as the third, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 5-nerved sometimes with two partial nerves added one on each side of the central vein, pubescent between the veins and hispid on the veins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Stems are stout, erect, hispid, branching from the base, varying in height from 3 to 10 feet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, setaceously-acuminate with a stout midrib prominent beneath, hispid or scabrid above, smooth or sometimes scaberulous and glaucous beneath, spinulosely scabrid at the margin, 5 to 24 inches by 1/4 to 1 inch. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is lanceolate, obliquely twisted, hispid at the back with long bulbous-based hairs, margins more or less unequally winged. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

In my [whole] [life] I've never [seen] a Hispidic. ❋ 'WolfMyer' (2021)

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