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- noun Plural form of
cnida .
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Examples
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The cnidae which is the little factors that make up the powerful you feel when you get stung by a anemone are called nematocysts.
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The tentacles on anemones are all filled with cnidae.
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The clownfish has a strange characteristic that scientists are unaware of that makes them immune to the deadly actinoporins the anemones cnidae produces.
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