sting : Idioms & Phrases

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bee sting

  • noun a sting inflicted by a bee
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Sting moth

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian moth (Doratifera vulnerans) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body, with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.
Webster 1913

sting operation

  • noun a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
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Sting ray

  • . (Zoöl.) See under 6th Ray.
Webster 1913

Sting winkle

  • (Zoöl.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.
Webster 1913

stinging hair

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

  • noun perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs
    Urtica dioica.
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