Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glochid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glochid
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.

Example Sentences

"[The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: γλωχίς

Inflected Forms

glochids (plural)

Synonyms

glochidium

Questions

What does glochid mean?: A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
Where does glochid come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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