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Definition of Hispid
1. Adjective. (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles. "Plants with hispid stems"
Similar to: Haired, Hairy, Hirsute
Definition of Hispid
1. a. Rough with bristles or minute spines.
Definition of Hispid
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hispid
1. covered with stiff hairs [adj]
Medical Definition of Hispid
1. Bearing stiff, bristly hairs. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hispid
Literary usage of Hispid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"fruit globose, and with the peduncles glabrous ¡ brauche« hispid-spiny ...
germs ovate, glabrous or hispid ; stem and petioles prickly; ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Stem about 2 dm. high, hispid with yellowish hairs; basal leaves numerous,
spatulate, 4-5 cm. long, finely cinereous and ap- pressed-hispid; stem-leaves ..."
3. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"hispid; leaves by fours, stem decumbent Berries purple, smooth. RU'DUS. 11—12.
... pubescent, hispid, and prickly ; leaves digitate, in threes or fives ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"hispid and the foliage ... one or two pairs of smaller lateral leaflets :
inflorescence hispid ; the denso spikes ... -hispid. 2. P. integrifolia, Torr. ..."
5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Slem I to 2 feet high, rather stout, branching, mostly very hispid on the ...
hirsute on the upper surface, and hispid-pilose on the nerves beneath, ..."
6. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Erect and strict,, or branching and dift'use, 8 to 13 in. high; herbage with
scattered hispid commonly linear, once or twice pinnately and (for the most ..."
7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"lar hispid species, but woody at bow, t lie stout stems and branches ... hispid or
glabrous, often nuked at base : leaves usually small (1 to 3 lines long), ..."
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