hispid
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hispidus (“rough, hairy, bristly”).
Adjective edit
hispid (comparative more hispid, superlative most hispid)
- (obsolete outside biology, botany) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly.
- The hispid hare inhabits forested areas.
- 1875, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India, Volume 1, L. Reeve & Co., page 157,
- 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.
- 1886, Asa Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalæ, Volume 2, Part 1, 2nd edition, Smithsonian Institution, page 428:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
- hispidate
- hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)
- hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus)
- hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus)
- hispid starburr (Acanthospermum hispidum)
Translations edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French hispide or Latin hispidus.
Adjective edit
hispid m or n (feminine singular hispidă, masculine plural hispizi, feminine and neuter plural hispide)
Declension edit
Declension of hispid
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | hispid | hispidă | hispizi | hispide | ||
definite | hispidul | hispida | hispizii | hispidele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | hispid | hispide | hispizi | hispide | ||
definite | hispidului | hispidei | hispizilor | hispidelor |
Spanish edit
Verb edit
hispid