Microscopic vs Glochid - What's the difference?
microscopic | glochid |
Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
Very small; minute
Carried out with great attention to detail.
Able to see extremely minute objects.
a form of small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the such as [[Wikipedia:Opuntia, prickly pear. Typically glochids are short, straight, and microscopically barbed. When stuck into the skin of anyone touching the plant, they detach and remain in the skin when the victim moves away.
As an adjective microscopic
is microscopic.As a noun glochid is
a form of small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the such as [[wikipedia:opuntia|prickly pear typically glochids are short, straight, and microscopically barbed when stuck into the skin of anyone touching the plant, they detach and remain in the skin when the victim moves away.microscopic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
- The water was full of microscopic organisms.
- Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
- The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
- Why has not man a microscopic eye? — Alexander Pope.