单词 | nettle battery |
释义 | > as lemmasnettle battery ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of > stinging organ nettle battery1888 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 770 Cnidoblasts, from which new ‘nettle batteries’ are derived in growth. 1902 Amer. Naturalist 36 581 Another hydra was irritated with a blunt needle in order to induce it to discharge the nettle batteries. 1911 H. Wettstein Teleo-mech. of Nature xiv. 57 The Siphonophore..consists of a stem, being an elongated hollow polyp, an air-bladder, locomotors or propellers, feeders or nutritive polyps, intestines, liver-glands, mouth, throat, nettle-battery, male and female polyps, etc. < as lemmas |
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