glochid

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7

Definition of glochid

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
    “[The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb of an arrow”).

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to glochid to make another valid word.

Find your best play with glochid

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes glochid, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.