Singular or collective form referring to barbed points or spines; an archaic or variant form of glochid.
From Greek glochis ('barbed angle' or 'pointed part'). The original Greek root.
In older taxonomic texts, you'll find 'glochis' used where modern botanists would say 'glochid'—it's the ghost of a linguistic choice that biology eventually standardized.
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