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nematocysts

n. (plural of nematocyst English)

Usage examples of "nematocysts".

Boris winces momentarily as the nematocysts let rip inside his mouth, but in a moment or so, the cubozoan slips down, and in the meantime, his biophysics model clips the extent of the damage to his stinger-ruptured oropharynx.

The ixchitl, pre-Fall, had not had poisonous nematocysts, so that was probably one of her little "tweaks.

His ability to avoid the stinging nematocysts while manipulating the jellyfish never ceased to astound her.

Its nematocysts burned the cavity of my chest and seared the length of my left arm.