Hispid [adjective]

Definition of Hispid:

with stiff hairs

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Sentence/Example of Hispid:

Leaves mostly entire and plants often rough-hispid; inflorescence commonly scorpioid.

Calyx and peduncle more or less hispid with glanded hairs, somewhat viscose.

Becoming plane, vermillion-red, externally paler, hispid towards the margin with straight black hairs.

Nicotiana urens, or stinging tobacco: leaves cordate, crenate; racemes recurved; stem hispid, stinging.

The leaf-sheaths are loose, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, or glabrous, with mouth contracted.

The variety F. heterophylla has narrower and longer "seeds," and a hispid rachilla.

They are all hispid plants, very disagreeable to handle, and are generally of rank growth.