spine hairs

spine hairs
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Poisonous weapons of many caterpillars, usually of multicellular origin and provided with pointed tips, that upon penetration into human skin are broken, causing irritation; primitive setalike normal hairs.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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