adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
savage/stinging/vicious/biting satire
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a biting satire of the television industry
stinging nettle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
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Above: These colonial anemones are each brandishing hundreds of stinging cells .
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Sea anemones possess stinging cells in their tentacles, which they use to protect themselves and to capture food.
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Coelenterates have stinging cells which they use to paralyse their prey.
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There are also stinging cells with coiled threads inside them, the unique possessions of the jellyfish tribe.
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The answer was found during detailed studies of the trigger mechanism which activates the anemone's nematocysts or stinging cells .