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STINGING HAIR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stinging hair mean?
• STINGING HAIR (noun)
The noun STINGING HAIR has 1 sense:
1. a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid
Familiarity information: STINGING HAIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("stinging hair" is a kind of...):
fuzz; hair; tomentum (filamentous hairlike growth on a plant)
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