"nematocyst" meaning in English

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          "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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