(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:17:57

Ec`tho*re"um (?), n.; pl. Ecthorea (#). [NL., fr. Gr. to leap out; out + , , to leap, dart.] Zool.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell.

[Written also ecthoraeum.]

 

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