stinging hair

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   a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid

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Questions about stinging hair

What does stinging hair mean?

stinging hair means "a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid".

Is stinging hair a common word?

stinging hair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.