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Meaning of glochid | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Examples

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

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

glochidium glochidone glochidonol glock Glock switch glockenspiel