stinger
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- noun
- /ˈstɪŋər/
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aguijón
- The big-eyed bug can then use the hollow stinger as a straw to suck up its meal.
- bee stinger
- scorpion stinger
At which point I carried on in a semi coma, dreaming I was awake, avoiding friends and puking, plucking stingers from my face and arms.
- At which point I carried on in a semi coma, dreaming I was awake, avoiding friends and puking, plucking stingers from my face and arms.
- I don't know why or how I wasn't affected more than just the stingers.
Examples
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It's the female that has a stinger that allows her to hunt and capture prey.
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Its long tail, thin enough to stick through the bars of its cage, had a large stinger on the end.
Fiction book (1992) -
That stinger is huge.
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I pull out the stinger and some stringy stuff attached, which I later learn was the bee's intestines.
Fiction book (1996) -
Wasps and bees, members of the same insect family, both with two pairs of wings, both with stingers.
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If you get stung by a honeybee, remove the stinger as soon as possible.
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The pups have to learn how to handle the scorpion's poisonous stingers and large, clawlike pincers.
How Harmful
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Morphology
Etymology
Stinger for an animal organ comes from the verb sting, which means 'to pierce' or 'give sharp pain'. So a stinger is the pointed part an animal uses to pierce or hurt, often with poison.