glochid

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, barb of an arrow).

Noun

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glochid (plural glochids)

  1. A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
      [The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.

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