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Example sentences for "hispid"

Lexicographically close words:
his; hisce; hise; hisen; hisn; hispidus; hiss; hissed; hisself; hissen
  1. Legume glandular-hispid (in the arborescent form of No.

  2. In most living species, the pelage is soft and dense, but in one species, Pappogeomys fumosus, the hairs are coarse and hispid somewhat as in Orthogeomys.

  3. Sigmodon hispidus= Hispid Cotton Rat This species, as is known, is active by day and by night.

  4. Its long, coarse, hispid stems run riot over small undershrubs or dead or unsightly brushwood, often completely covering them with a mound of foliage thickly sown with the dull-purple flowers.

  5. One to two and one half feet high; hispid throughout, or armed with rigid bristles or prickles.

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

  7. Calyx and peduncle more or less hispid with glanded hairs, somewhat viscose.

  8. Others have hispid awns by which they would become attached to the feathers of birds, and there is no doubt this is an effective mode of dispersal.

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

  10. The second glume is as long as the third, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 5-nerved sometimes with two partial nerves added one on each side of the central vein, pubescent between the veins and hispid on the veins.

  11. The second glume is chartaceous, distinctly awned, the awn being as long as the glume or longer, hispid above and at the sides also.

  12. The fourth glume is narrow with hyaline margins, with an awn 2 to 3 inches long; awn is hispid below, twisted and geniculate at and less hairy above the middle.

  13. The first glume is lanceolate, obliquely twisted, hispid at the back with long bulbous-based hairs, margins more or less unequally winged.

  14. The first glume is scabrid, deeply channelled at the back, nerveless, narrowly truncate at the tip, and hispid near the apex.

  15. Ours are very hispid annuals or biennials, with small white flowers in scorpioid spikes.

  16. Receptacle flat, the scarious chaff falling with the nearly terete wingless and beakless achenes; pappus of 2 stout subulate retrorsely hispid awns.

  17. Hispid or hirsute and often glandular perennials, with entire or toothed leaves, and single or panicled heads of mostly yellow flowers; summer and early autumn.

  18. Achenes flat, obovate, wingless, tardily deciduous with the attached scale and chaff; pappus a firm scarious hispid crown, more or less lobed.

  19. A coarse hispid perennial, with alternate deeply pinnatifid leaves, and somewhat paniculately disposed heads on slender naked peduncles; flowers yellow.

  20. Stems hispid or densely pubescent; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or barely acute --53.

  21. Leaves hirsute or hispid on the mid-veins beneath --27.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hispid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; barbed; bristling; bristly; bushy; ciliate; fleecy; flocculent; furry; fuzzy; hairy; hirsute; horned; horny; matted; pilose; pointed; pronged; pubescent; shaggy; spiked; spined; spiny; stubbled; studded; tapered; tapering; tined; toothed; unshorn; woolly