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stinging
This female Nasonia wasp is stinging a fly pupal host and laying eggs within it.
From the sciencedaily.com
The opening forte chords singed, and were capped by stinging exclamation points.
From the ocregister.com
Alas, it may take a more stinging defeat to trigger that reckoning with reality.
From the economist.com
Effects included breathing difficulties, nausea, stinging eyes and burning skin.
From the guardian.co.uk
The mouth parts of mites may be adapted for biting, stinging, sawing or sucking.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The new novel is a stinging, often hysterical indictment of celebutante culture.
From the denverpost.com
He didn't directly answer the question but nonetheless gave a stinging response.
From the caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
Growing up, we used to play football in an alleyway lined with stinging nettles.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
One of the telltale signs of a CO2 leakage was a stinging sensation in the nose.
From the newscientist.com
- A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"
- Bite: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
- Deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- Pang: a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience"
- A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- Stick: saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
- STING (Sequence To and withIN Graphics) is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence, structure, function, and stability. STING is freely accessible at .
- A stinger (technically referred to as a sting) is a colloquial term for a sharp organ or body part found in various animals (typically arthropods) that usually delivers some kind of venom (usually piercing the skin of another animal). ...
- In experimental fluid mechanics, a sting is a test fixture on which models are mounted for testing, e.g., in a wind tunnel. A sting is usually a long shaft attaching to the downstream end of the model so that it does not disturb flow over the model.
