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Hispid

adjective
1.
(of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles.



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... overlapping in shingled fashion (imbricated), and joined at the narrowed base. The surface is convex, and the margin is strongly incurved, so that each of the individual caps is shell-shaped (conchate). The surface of the pileus is coarsely hairy or hispid, the surface becoming more rough with age. Many coarse hairs unite to form coarse tufts which are stouter and nearly erect toward the base of the cap, and give the surface a tuberculate appearance. Toward the margin of the ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson


Words linked to "Hispid" :   hirsute, hairy, animal, animate being, plant life, flora, fauna, creature, haired, brute, plant, hispid pocket mouse, beast


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