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glochid
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glo·chid  (glkd) also glo·chid·i·um (gl-kd-m)
n. pl. glo·chids also glo·chid·i·a (-kd-)
One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.
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Noun1.glochid - a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti)glochid - a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti)
glochidium
pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn, spine - a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
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imbecillis does not depend on parasitism (It carries the young in its marsupia during metamorphosis from glochidia to juvenile mussels, thus eliminating the parasitic stage on fishes which other species undergo) and it is hermaphroditic.
Histological studies on gametogenesis, hermaphroditism and the ... by Sereflisan, Hulya; Cek, Sehriban; Sereflisan, Menderes / Journal of Shellfish Research
After that it will fertile and develop to glochidia and juvenile and free living form at the last cycle.
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They begin as larvae, or glochidia as they are called.
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