"nematocyst" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1885, R. J. Harvey Gibson, “Observations on the nematocysts of Hydra fusca”, in Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, volume 39, page 30:",
          "text": "Often one sees, on surface view, a distinctly rounded vacuole, occupying a position in the cell occupied in others by a large nematocyst.",
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          "text": "The young nematocyst decreases in size and becomes coarsely granular, the granules arranging themselves in a spiral line close under the external membrane.",
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        "A capsule, in certain cnidarians, containing a barbed, threadlike tube that delivers a paralyzing sting"
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