glochid means A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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.”