hispid

1. 1.

   (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles

   “plants with hispid stems”

   Similarhairy

   animal · plant

Other forms of hispid

comparative

hispidder·

superlative

hispiddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hispid

What does hispid mean?

hispid means "(of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles".

How many syllables are in hispid?

hispid has 2 syllables: hi-spid. The stress falls on "hi".

Is hispid a common word?

hispid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.