horrida

Hummocks are formed on these plains by the nara plant (Acanthosicyos horrida), a large, spiny, leafless shrub.

Succulent Karoo 2008

Here, large areas are completely devoid of vegetation, while elsewhere Acanthosicyos horrida encroaches upon the sand.

Kaokoveld desert 2008

The ascent of the ridge was rugged and steep, thorns of the prickliest nature punished us severely, the acacia horrida was here more horrid than usual, the gums stretched out their branches, and entangled the loads, the mimosa with its umbrella-like top served to shade us from the sun, but impeded a rapid advance.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The eastern zone is often furnished with mountains, well wooded with evergreen succulent trees, on which neither fire nor droughts can have the smallest effect (‘Strelitzia’, ‘Zamia horrida’, ‘Portulacaria afra’, ‘Schotia speciosa’, ‘Euphorbias’, and ‘Aloes arborescens’); and its seaboard gorges are clad with gigantic timber.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

At some little distance outside Leh are the cremation grounds — desert places, destitute of any other vegetation than the Caprifolia horrida.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

In more sheltered spots we come on clumps of the white-thorned mimosa (‘Acacia horrida’, also ‘A. atomiphylla’), and great abundance of wild sage

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

As might be expected, before I had gone a few paces a branch of the acacia horrida — only one of a hundred such annoyances — caught the right leg of my pyjamas at the knee, and ripped it almost clean off; succeeding which a stumpy kolquall caught me by the shoulder, and another rip was the inevitable consequence.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Ladakh are over blazing gravel or surfaces of denuded rock, the singular Caprifolia horrida, with its dark-green mass of wavy ovate leaves on trailing stems, and its fair, white, anemone-like blossom, and the graceful Clematis orientalis, the only vegetation.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

This made a great emperor cry out, on the approach of death, "O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida," &c.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

* [708] O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965