hispid

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Example sentences from the Web for hispid

• They are all hispid plants, very disagreeable to handle, and are generally of rank growth.

  The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits|Mary Elizabeth Parsons

• The leaf-sheaths are loose, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, or glabrous, with mouth contracted.

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses|Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

• The variety F. heterophylla has narrower and longer "seeds," and a hispid rachilla.

  Grasses|H. Marshall Ward