stinging hair

Other forms: stinging hairs

Definitions of stinging hair
  1. noun
    a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid
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    type of:
    fuzz, hair, tomentum
    filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
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