trichotomous

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The cuticle is firm and unyielding and marked by longitudinal and somewhat spiral rows of cilia and trichocysts.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

At the instant the stain hit the animal, it had shot out its trichocysts, or stinging hairs.

From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

The body is uniformly covered with fine cilia, and the periphery is uniformly studded with large trichocysts, except along the furrow.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

The cortical plasm contains peculiar rod-like bodies, which look more like lines or markings than like rods or trichocysts.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

The cortical plasma may protrude pseudopodia in the longitudinal groove; it contains trichocysts in several species, true nematocysts in Polykrikos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various