Of these, the pygmy hog and the hispid hare are confined to the grassland habitats. From Wordnik.com. [Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests] Reference
It is also the single most important site for the survival of golden langur, pygmy hog and hispid hare. From Wordnik.com. [Manas National Park, India] Reference
The Biology and Conservation of the Pigmy Hog Sus salvanius and the hispid hare Capriolagus hispidus. From Wordnik.com. [Manas National Park, India] Reference
The distribution and status of the hispid hare Caprolagus hispidus - with some additional notes on the pigmy hog Sus salvinius. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal] Reference
Pigmy hog and hispid hare: further observations of the continuing decline (or, a lament for Barnadi and a good cause for skepticism). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Leaves sixteen to eighteen inches in length, very dark green, deeply lobed, or lyrate, and hairy, or hispid, on the nerves and borders. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Hundreds of trees have been felled and the habitats of endangered species such as golden langur, hispid hare and pygmy hog, have been put at risk. From Wordnik.com. [Manas National Park, India] Reference
Species such as the hispid hare and pygmy hog are found in these grasslands, especially in the soft soils and muddy areas along the river courses. From Wordnik.com. [Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests] Reference
Several endangered mammalian herbivores are also present, including the Asiatic wild buffalo and the near-endemic hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) (Table 1). From Wordnik.com. [Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands] Reference
The habit of the whole specimen is very rigid, with the exception of the flowers, which are slightly nodding; the tallest growths need no stakes, and the species enjoys a happy immunity from insect pests, probably by reason of its hispid character. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
As the resolute propounders of intermittent jocularity strode onward toward the beckoning sunset, accompanied by a hulking and perplexed mass of hair that lumbered after them on legs like hispid tree trunks, and one brooding black cat of striking size and grace, the Gogloyyik lifted its outlandish cranium and watched them go, not overlooking a chance to fenegrate the sookstrum that unexpectedly darted between its legs. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
The surface of the pileus is coarsely hairy or hispid, the surface becoming more rough with age. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The inner fur is soft, downy, and of an ash colour, the outer longer, hispid, harsh and bristly. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
These include the Sumatran striped rabbit, hispid hare, Amami rabbit and the Annamite striped rabbit, only discovered by scientists in 1995. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The terrestrial plants are erect, nearly simple, more or less hispid throughout, with lanceolate leaves and short petioles, often nearly sessile. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Leaves 2-3 inches long, semi-cor - date, acuminate, bright, green, shining, hispid above, fflabrous beneath, but covered with minute furfuraceous scales, visible with the microscope; their margins doubly serrated and ciliated. From Wordnik.com. [Exotic flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, Or Otherwise Interesting Erotic ...] Reference
For instance, the golden langur (Semnopithecus geei), hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), and pygmy hog (Sus salvanius) are limited to the north bank of the river, whereas the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) and stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) are limited to the south bank. From Wordnik.com. [Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests] Reference
The belles of Kisemo are noted for their vanity in brass wire, which is wound in spiral rings round their wrists and ankles, and the varieties of style which their hispid heads exhibit; while their poor lords, obliged to be contented with dingy torn clouts and split ears, show what wide sway Asmodeus holds over this terrestrial sphere — for it must have been an unhappy time when the hard-besieged husbands finally gave way before their spouses. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Loose from each hispid star of citron bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference
4 hispid. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Society for the promotion of useful arts, in the state of New York] Reference
3 hispid LOBELIA. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Society for the promotion of useful arts, in the state of New York] Reference
There are several threatened mammal species in this ecoregion, including the tiger, Asian elephant, greater one-horned rhinoceros, swamp deer (Cervus duvaucelii), gaur (Bos gaurus), clouded leopard (Pardofelis nebulosa), hispid hare, pygmy hog, capped leaf monkey (Semnopithecus pileatus), Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus), and sloth bear (Melursus ursinus). From Wordnik.com. [Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests] Reference
Trichome. glabrous: no hairs of any kind present. arachnoid, arachnose: with many fine, entangled hairs giving a cobwebby appearance. barbellate: with finely barbed hairs (barbellae). bearded: with long, stiff hairs. bristly: with stiff hair-like prickles. canescent: hoary with dense grayish-white pubescence. ciliate: marginally fringed with short hairs (cilia). ciliolate: minutely ciliate. floccose: with flocks of soft, woolly hairs, which tend to rub off. glandular: with a gland at the tip of the hair. hirsute: with rather rough or stiff hairs. hispid: with rigid, bristly hairs. hispidulous: minutely hispid. hoary: with a fine, close grayish-white pubescence. lanate, lanose: with woolly hairs. pilose: with soft, clearly separated hairs. puberulent, puberulous: with fine, minute hairs. pubescent: with soft, short and erect hairs. scabrous, scabrid: rough to the touch sericeous: silky appearance through fine, straight and appressed (lying close and flat) hairs. silky: with adpressed, s. From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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