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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoology, the bud of a thread-cell; a budding thread-cell, from the contents of which a nematocyst is developed.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the cells which, in the Cœlenterata, develop into cnidæ.

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  • noun biology A cell in the epidermis of cnidarians in which the nematocyst develops

Etymologies

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cnido- +‎ -blast

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