Thread-cells, another name for Stinging-cells (q.v.), given on account of the coiled thread or lasso that springs out and stings.
Thread-cells
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 189
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Thread-cells, another name for Stinging-cells (q.v.), given on account of the coiled thread or lasso that springs out and stings.