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glochidiate, a. Bot.|gləʊˈkɪdɪət|
Also glochidate.
[f. mod.L. glōchidi-um barbed hair of a plant (a. Gr. *γλωχίδιον, dim. of γλωχίς point of an arrow) + -ate. Cf. F. glochidé.]
Barbed at the tip (see quots.).
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 1100 Glochidate, having hairs, the ends of which are split and hooked back, so that the hook is double. 1845Lindley Sch. Bot. vi. (1858) 86 Involucre globose, glochidate (covered with scales terminating in a sharp hard hook, and finally constituting a bur). 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 46 If presenting two or more hooks at their apex, they are glochidiate or barbed. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 297 Utricularia..seeds..pitted or covered with capitate or glochidiate hairs. 1880[see glochideous]. |