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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cell in the epidermis of coelenterates in which a nematocyst is developed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology, the bud of a thread-cell; a budding thread-cell, from the contents of which a nematocyst is developed.
Wiktionary
- n. biology A cell in the epidermis of cnidarians in which the nematocyst develops
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the cells which, in the Cœlenterata, develop into cnidæ.
Etymologies
- cnido- + -blast (Wiktionary)
- New Latin cnīda, nematocyst (from Latin cnīdē, nettle, from Greek knīdē) + -blast. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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