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cassiosomes

cassiosomes is the plural of cassiosome.

Meaning of cassiosome

Noun

cassiosome (plural cassiosomes)

  1. A stinging-cell structure, composed of a layer of mainly nematocytes surrounding a core of dinoflagellates, amoebocytes and mesoglea, expelled within mucus by Rhizostomeae jellyfish to sting (and in some cases kill) prey in the surrounding water.
    • Released within the mucus, we discovered three types of undeployed nematocysts, as well as microscopic, motile, cellular masses composed of nematocytes that we formally call cassiosomes. While cassiosomes bear some resemblance to another cnidarian structure originating in mesenteries of the starlet...2020 February 13, Ames, Cheryl L., Anna ML Klompen, Krishna Badhiwala, Kade Muffett, Abigail J. Reft, Mehr Kumar, Jennie D. Janssen et al., “Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of...

Questions about cassiosomes

What is cassiosomes the plural of?
Cassiosomes is the plural of cassiosome.

Words near cassiosomes in the dictionary

  1. cassiopeium
  2. cassiopid
  3. cassiopids
  4. cassiopium
  5. cassiosome
  6. cassiosomes
  7. cassiri
  8. cassiris
  9. cassis
  10. cassis liqueur
  11. cassises

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