A foot-like or leg-like structure in certain marine organisms that carries or is equipped with stinging cells.
From Greek knide (sting) + pous/podos (foot). Describes appendages that function both as locomotor structures and as stinging-cell delivery systems.
Though cnidopod isn't commonly used today, it reflects how zoologists tried to classify every stinging variation they found in sea creatures!
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