Look up: nettle

1. nettle
   [n] - any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) 2. [v] - goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
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2. nettle
   textile bast fibre Category: Various industries and crafts
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3. Nettle
   Net'tle noun [ Anglo-Saxon netele ; akin to Dutch netel , German nessel , Old High German nezzïla , nazza , Danish nelde , nälde , Swedish nässla ; cf, Lithuanian notere .] (Botan...
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4. Nettle
   Net'tle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Nettled ; present participle & verbal noun Nettling .] To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of disple...
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5. nettle
   <botany> A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. Chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. The common European species, U. Urens and U. Dioica, are also found in ...
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6. nettle
   noun any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
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7. Nettle
   • (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the...
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8. nettle
   (from the article `Urticaceae`) the nettle family comprising about 45 genera of herbs, shrubs, small trees, and a few vines, distributed primarily in tropical regions. The family is ...
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9. Nettle
   The most prominent member of the genus is the stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, native to Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. The genus also contains a number of other species with similar properties, listed below. However, a large number of species included within this genus in the older litera...
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10. nettle
    nettle, common name for the Urticaceae, a family of fibrous herbs, small shrubs, and trees found chiefly in the tropics and subtropics. Several genera of nettles are covered with small stinging hairs that on contact emit an irritant (formic acid) which produces a skin rash sometimes called urticaria...
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11. Nettle
    The nettle (Urtica) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the family Urticaceae. They bear stamens and pistils in separate flowers, the staminate flowers having a perianth of four leaves, whilst the pistillate flowers have one of two leaves.
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12. nettle
    Type: Term Pronunciation: net′ĕl Synonyms: urtica
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13. nettle
    Any of a group of weedy plants with stinging hairs on oval, tooth-edged leaves; the hairs contain nerve poisons that penetrate the skin and cause a rash. The flowers are small and greenish, carried on spikes emerging at the same point where the leaves join the stem. The common nettle (U. dioica) grows on waste ground in E...
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14. Nettle
    [disambiguation] A nettle is any of several flowering plants, particularly of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae, but also: Nettle may also refer to: ...
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15. Nettle
    [cryptographic library] Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in a wide range of toolkits and applications. It began as a collection of low-level crypto functions from lsh in 2001 . Since June 2009, with version 2.0, it is a GNU package . As of version 2.1, nettle ...
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