How To Use glochid In A Sentence
- Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
- They have a thick, leathery peel dotted with areolas (colored rings, generally at the base of spines in cacti) loaded with irritating glochids. Nopales, tunas and pitayas
- The spines grow from an areole covered with glochids, which are tiny, barbed spines characteristic of all Opuntia.
- Zygotes develop within the mantle cavity and glochidia larvae are released in the early summer.
- While encysted, the glochidia will metamorphose, allowing the organs to develop more like an adult's organs.
- Because of the glochids, great care is required when harvesting or preparing prickly pear cactus.
- Unionid embryos spend the first stage of development in the marsupial portion of the female unionid's gills, where they develop into glochidia, the parasitic stage.
- The dominant species on lowland flows are Fagraea berteroana, Glochidion ramiflorum, Arytera brackenridgei, and Morinda citrifolia with Metrosideros collina and Weinmannia samoensis becoming more dominant at higher elevations. Samoan tropical moist forests
- The glochidia then attach to a vertebrate host in which the encyst and transform, protected and fed by the vertebrate tissue, into an adult. Mollusca
- After you have removed the glochids you can eat the fruit fresh, or prepare it in several ways.
