hispidulous

[ hi-spij-uh-luhs ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. covered with stiff, short hairs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hispidulous¹

First recorded in 1850–55; hispid + -ulous

Example Sentences

Commonly tall, 5–8° high; leaves more or less pubescent or hispidulous beneath.

From Project Gutenberg

Low, with more rigid and hispidulous scabrous leaves.—In drier places, Ill., Wisc., and southwestward.

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Leaves all nearly filiform and upper face hispidulous scabrous; inflorescence more paniculate; corolla small, the expanded limb only 6´´ in diameter.

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Usually tall; leaves lanceolate or lance-oblong; cyme loose; scales close, obtuse or mucronate; achenes hispidulous on the ribs.—Low grounds, W. Penn. to Ill., and southward.—Heads variable, 2–4´´ high and the scales in few or many ranks; the var. grandiflòra, Nutt., with large heads, the involucre of 35–40 scales in many ranks.

From Project Gutenberg

Larger and stouter; leaves broad and flat, 3–4´´ wide; pistillate spikes 1 or 2, the lowest often peduncled, perfectly globular and compactly 12–30-flowered, the perigynium spreading or deflexed and prominently many-nerved.—Meadows and copses, Vt. to Ill., and south to Ga.; rare eastward.—In var. hispídula, Gray, the perigynium is sparsely hispidulous.

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