Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A nematocyst.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "nettle".

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