nettle
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- noun
- /ˈnɛtəl/
:
ortiga
- Wearing gloves is essential when handling nettle plants in the garden.
- stinging nettle
- nettle water
The most common are saw Palmetto, nettle roots and pumpkin seed extract.
- The most common are saw Palmetto, nettle roots and pumpkin seed extract.
- So sometimes those little nettles get too big and tough, we can't use them.
- One of the things that's been purported to free up testosterone in the blood are things like nettles, stinging nettles.
- The one that few years back people were claiming could reduce SHBG was stinging nettle.
- Actually, in Finland they also used stinging nettle.
Examples
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Stinging nettles release a mixture of histamine and other toxins that cause pain and inflammation when touched.
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Be careful of the nettle; its stinging hairs can cause skin irritation.
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I have a cup of nettle tea with honey.
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Pick a large bag of tender nettle shoots in April or early May.
Academic text (1992) -
Now she is holding a bundle of nettle leaf blades in her right hand.
Academic text (1995) -
Or a spring day like this when I can go to my nettle patch and pick nettles for soup.
Academic text (1999) -
Now, if you have nettles, nettles are a great way to make a nettle tea.
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And we blanch the nettles or they will sting us.
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Nettle soup and dandelion salad, that'll keep us alive.
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The attendants stroked and washed her hair with brewed nettles and poppy petals.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A plant with leaves that have tiny hairs which make your skin feel hot and sore when touched
A plant that lives for many years with broad toothed leaves and stinging hairs that can irritate skin
Idioms
Compounds
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A plant with leaves that have tiny hairs which make your skin feel hot and sore when touched
- US
A rough prickly plant from North America with pale yellow flowers and small berries
A small plant with leaves like stinging nettles that does not sting when touched, often in gardens
- US
A prickly weed with pale yellow flowers and yellow berry-like fruit found in the southeastern United States
- Australian
A tall Australian tree with tiny stinging hairs on its leaves and stems
- Australian
A tall Australian tree with nettle-like leaves that can sting when touched
A plant that lives for many years and spreads by underground stems in wet or shady places
- US
A prickly plant with pale yellow flowers and poisonous yellow berries that can irritate the skin
- Specialized
Itchy skin reaction that makes raised pale spots with red edges after contact with certain plants or other allergens
A plant that grows in European woods with blue-purple bell-shaped flowers once used for sore throats
- UK
A small European plant that lives one year and has stinging leaves and green flower clusters
A plant with silvery leaves, small blue or white flowers, and a round berry used to curdle milk
A European plant from the mint family with white flowers that looks like stinging nettles but does not sting
- Specialized
A wild plant with silvery leaves and violet, blue, or white flowers that has round berries used to curdle milk
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nettle comes from the old English word netele, the name for a plant whose tiny hairs 'sting' your skin when you touch them, so think of that sharp, burning touch. That's why a nettle is a plant with stinging hairs.