hispid

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Nicotiana urens, or stinging tobacco: leaves cordate, crenate; racemes recurved; stem hispid, stinging.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Meller, Henry James

The surface of the pileus is coarsely hairy or hispid, the surface becoming more rough with age.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Hairy; leaves 3–5-cleft and incised; stamens 15–20; fruit hispid at the top.—Low grounds, Va. and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Red Hazel, Avelinier Rouge.—Nut medium ovate, not long as in the tubulosa, or Lambert's filbert; shell thick; husk long and hispid.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.

Surface minutely hispid, smooth and rounded as a whole.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson