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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the urticating cells, thread-cells, lasso-cells, or nematocysts of the Cœlentera, from which the jelly-fishes, etc., obtain their power of stinging.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A nematocyst.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the peculiar stinging cells found in Cœlenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "nettle". (Wiktionary)

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  1. nematocyst

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. cnidocell
  2. cnidocil
  1. ecthoræum
  2. lasso-cell
  1. sarcotheca
  2. stinging-cell
  1. nematocyst
  2. ecthoreum
  1. lasso cell
  2. trigger-hair
  1. nettle-cell
  2. thread-cell

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