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What are cnidoblasts ?

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The body wall of cnidarians consists of special stinging cells, called cnidoblasts, for offence and defence purposes. These cells, when discharged, give out from a cnidocyst a long thread-tube that may coil round the prey, or attach to it, or inject a toxin, called hypnotoxin into it to paralyse it.
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