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Crossword-Solution: ACONTIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Acontia n. pl. Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of
nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of
certain Actiniae when irritated.

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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ACONTIA (3)

When irritated this species throws out from the column numbers of long, slender white threads (/acontia/), which are covered with minute stinging-cells.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold 2013
They have a considerable resemblance to the acontia of certain Anthozoa, and are probably mainly digestive in function.
The Cambridge natural history, Vol. I Marcus Hartog 2023
SAGARTIIDAE.—This family includes several genera with a contractile pedal disc, with the body-wall usually perforated by cinclides, and provided with acontia.
The Cambridge natural history, Vol. I Marcus Hartog 2023
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).