glochid

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
    — [The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.

词形变化

glochids plural

词源

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