Search Result for "glochidium":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti);
[syn: glochidium, glochid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Glochidium \Glo*chid"i*um\, n.; pl. Glochidia. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the point of an arrow.] (Zool.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills. [1913 Webster]
