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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear..
[The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.
Use glochid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glochid means A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear..
Common synonyms include glochidium.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.
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