hispid

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The ligule is short and ciliate The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, setaceously-acuminate with a stout midrib prominent beneath, hispid or scabrid above, smooth or sometimes scaberulous and glaucous beneath, spinulosely scabrid at the margin, 5 to 24 inches by 1/4 to 1 inch Illustration: Fig.

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  1. adjective Covered with stiff or rough hairs; bristly: hispid stems.

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  1. Latin hispidus.

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  1. = French hispide = Spanish híspido = Portuguese hispido = Italian ispido, from Latin hispidus, rough, shaggy, hairy, bristly. From the same ult. source, English hidous, hideous, q. v.
 

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