Meaning of Nettle | Babel Free

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1. Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
2. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, stinging nettles:
3. Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
4. Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
5. Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
6. Bull nettles and spurge nettles (Cnidoscolus spp.):
7. bull nettle, spurge nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
8. Texas bull nettle (Cnidoscolus texanus),
9. bull nettle (Cnidoscolus urens),
10. Nettle trees or tree nettles:
11. Various species of the genus Dendrocnide
12. Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
13. small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
14. scratchbush (Urera baccifera)
15. tree nettle (Urtica ferox);
16. rock nettle (Eucnide spp.);
17. Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
18. ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
19. bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle (Solanum elaeagnifolium);
20. western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle (Solanum dimidiatum);
21. horse-nettle (Solanum rostratum);
22. hackberry (Celtis spp.).
23. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
24. dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium spp.), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
25. false nettle (Boehmeria spp., family Urticaceae);
26. flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus spp.);
27. hedge nettle (Stachys spp.);
28. hemp nettle (Galeopsis spp.);
29. horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
30. nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
31. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

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