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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, the thread of a thread-cell or nematocyst; the coiled filament which springs out of a cnida or nematophore. See cut under
cnida .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
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- noun zoology The fine
filiform process of acnidoblast .
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