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Occur vs Glochid - What's the difference?

occur | glochid |

As a verb occur

is to happen or take place.

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.

occur

English

Verb

(occurr)
  • To happen or take place.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • To present or offer (itself).
  • (label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
  • * 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,
  • Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]
  • (label) To be present or found.
  • Synonyms

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    glochid

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.