doratifera vulnerans

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doratifera vulnerans - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sting \Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See Sting, v. t.]
     1. (Zool.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially
        when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict
        a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion.
        The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The
        caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified
        dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang
        of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
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     2. (Bot.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which
        secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these
        hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid
        is pressed into it.
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     3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the
        stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
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              The sting of death is sin.            --1 Cor. xv.
                                                    56.
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     4. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging;
        a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's
        mortal sting." --Shak.
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     5. A goad; incitement. --Shak.
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     6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
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     Sting moth (Zool.), an Australian moth (Doratifera  vulnerans
        ) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body,
        with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.
  
     Sting ray. (Zool.) See under 6th Ray.
  
     Sting winkle (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of
        the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex  erinaceus
        ). See Illust. of Murex.
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