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ˈsea-ˌnettle
The popular name of certain radiate marine animals of the class Acalephæ, having the property of stinging when touched. † Formerly applied also to the sea-anemone.
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. x. II. 449 The Sea-nettle (a fish so called). 1747Gentl. Mag. 121 Among which he reckons..the sea-star and sea-nettle. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. vi. 197 These belong to what are vulgarly called the jelly-fish or sea-nettles. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. (ed. 2) 239 Acalephæ, or Sea Nettles. |