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Cnida

One of the peculiar stinging cells found in Coeliglenterata a nematocyst a lasso cell

of the sponges They are so named from presence of stinging cells cnidae in the tissues See Coelenterata

Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidaelig that stings horses and sucks their blood

various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish orange flowers

genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of Western America lacking stinging hairs

to kill live stock in the southern United States by stinging or by being swallowed

with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation Urtica gracilis is common in the Northern and Urtica

Some kind of stinging or biting insect as a flea a gnat a sandfly

of the West Indies and Florida So called because it stings the tongue like ginger See Illust under Millepore