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After being ingested, this pathogen fires a harpoonlike filament and injects its cellular machinery into a host cell to produce more spores.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2022

Every legionnaire carried a harpoonlike spear called a pilum, a g/adius, a dagger, and about a hundred pounds of other equipment.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan