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stinging hair

American  

noun

Botany.

  1. sting.

stinging hair British  

noun

  1. a multicellular hair in plants, such as the stinging nettle, that injects an irritant fluid when in contact with an animal

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Instead they raced down the hill behind her or before her, pushing and pulling, their stinging hair in her face.

From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Eliot, Ethel Cook

Ivra gave them glad welcome in spite of their rough ways and stinging hair.

From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Eliot, Ethel Cook

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