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stinging_nettle

stinging nettle

English

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
stem, greatly enlarged

Noun

stinging nettle (countable and uncountable, plural stinging nettles)

  1. A nettle; any of the species of genus Urtica that cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially Urtica dioica, originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.

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