Definitions
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 theepidermis ofcnidarians in which thenematocyst develops
Etymologies
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cnido- + -blast
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