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Definition of Stinging hair
1. Noun. A multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinging Hair
Literary usage of Stinging hair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"A. Highly magnified drawing of a stinging hair of the common nettle. ... B shows
the knobbed end of the stinging hair, and the way in which, ..."
2. Handbook of Practical Botany: For the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"^stinging hair of °f tne hair with hydrochloric acid shows, on which is a small
bristle the other hand, impregnated with carbonate of lime, ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The mass of tissue in which the stinging hair is imbedded consists of
chlorophyll-bearing cells, and is elastic and flexible; whenever a stinging hair is ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"stinging hairs: 824, a stinging hair from the wood- nettle (Laportea canadensis),
a unicellular structure seated on a slight leaf emergence ..."
5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"stinging hairs: 824, a stinging hair from the wood- nettle (Laportea canadensis),
a unicellular structure seated on a slight leaf emergence (e); ..."
6. A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the by Lucius Elmer Sayre (1905)
"The turgescent condition of the hair must also contribute to the ejection of the
fluid. FIG. 426. — A. stinging hair of Urtica urens. ..."
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