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Definition of Cnidae
1. cnida [n] - See also: cnida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cnidae
Literary usage of Cnidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Zoophytes: An Introduction to the Hydroida, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa by Arthur Stuart Pennington (1885)
"The threads are tubular, and are believed to be ejected from the cnidae by the
expansion under irritation of the fluid contained in the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, in which he maintained that the cnidae, or
thread cells of ... he says: "Es ist noch fraglich ob nur eine Art cnidae in ..."
3. A manual of the sub-kingdom cœlenterata by Joseph Reay Greene (1861)
"... of altered cnidae, which Among the ^th another to form a wide tube, ceedingly
in F '^fire surface of the column. Here without, the J, of the tube is so ..."
4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... and cnidae, the latter term referring to the stinging power of the animals.
During the succeeding ages and down to about the middle of the eighteenth ..."
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