The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκνίδη“nettle”
- translingual · derived fromCnidaria
- English todaycnido-
From translingual Cnidaria, from Ancient Greek κνίδη (knídē, “nettle”).
Words from the same roots
translingualCnidaria all →
cnidocyte
Ancient Greekκνίδη all →
cnidacnidocyte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.