teliferousadj.
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teliferous1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Teliferous,..which beareth darts, arrows or weapons.
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
2. Zoology. Armed with nematocysts or stinging cells, as the Telifera, a division of the Cœlenterata comprising all except the Sponges (Porifera).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > producing or having nematocysts
teliferous1860
cnidogenous1902
1860 P. H. Gosse Actinologia Brit. Introd. 22 Teliferous System... The Actinaria are furnished with a system of armature of most extraordinary character... Their tissues contain excessively minute bodies, in the form of oblong or oval transparent vesicles, which have the power of shooting out a long thread of extensive tenuity.
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