glochid
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- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of glochid
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb of an arrow”).
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