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▸ noun:  Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
▸ noun:  Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, stinging nettles:
▸ noun:  Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
▸ noun:  Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
▸ noun:  Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
▸ noun:  Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
▸ noun:  Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
▸ noun:  Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle,
▸ noun:  Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle,
▸ noun:  Nettle trees or tree nettles:
▸ noun:  Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
▸ noun:  Urera baccifera (scratchbush),
▸ noun:  Urtica ferox (tree nettle);
▸ noun:  rock nettle (Eucnide spp.);
▸ noun:  small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
▸ noun:  Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
▸ noun:  ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
▸ noun:  Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
▸ noun:  Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
▸ noun:  Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
▸ noun:  Celtis (hackberry).
▸ noun:  Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
▸ noun:  dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium spp.), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
▸ noun:  false nettle (Boehmeria spp., family Urticaceae);
▸ noun:  flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus spp.);
▸ noun:  hedge nettle (Stachys spp.);
▸ noun:  hemp nettle (Galeopsis spp.);
▸ noun:  horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
▸ noun:  nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
▸ noun:  Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.






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