sea-nettlen.
The popular name of certain radiate marine animals of the class Acalephæ, having the property of stinging when touched. †Formerly applied also to the sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
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acaleph1706
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
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sea-carnation1768
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sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. x. 449 The Sea-nettle (a fish so called).
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 121/2 Among which he reckons..the sea-star and sea-nettle.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. vi. 197 These belong to what are vulgarly called the jelly-fish or sea-nettles.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 239 Acalephæ, or Sea Nettles.
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