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Stinging hair   /stˈɪŋɪŋ hɛr/   Listen
Stinging hair

noun
1.
A multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid.





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"Stinging hair" Quotes from Famous Books



... even the Snow Witches who had not been invited. They came whirling and dancing through the forest almost as soon as the sliding had begun. Ivra gave them glad welcome in spite of their rough ways and stinging hair. For she, the only one of all who were there, liked them very well and had made them her comrades often and often on windy winter days. And they, who cared for nobody, cared for her. "She is not like ...
— The Little House in the Fairy Wood • Ethel Cook Eliot


Words linked to "Stinging hair" :   hair, fuzz, tomentum


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