hispid

From Latin hispidus (“rough, hairy, bristly”).

hispid (comparative more hispid, superlative most hispid)

1. (obsolete outside biology, botany) Covered in short, stiff hairs.

   Synonym: bristly

   Coordinate terms: spiny, spiky

   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.

Borrowed from French hispide or Latin hispidus.

hispid m or n (feminine singular hispidă, masculine plural hispizi, feminine and neuter plural hispide)

1. hispid

hispid

1. second-person plural imperative of hispir