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.

Synonyms

• common nettle, stinger (Bristolian)

Related terms

• deadnettle

Further reading

• stinging nettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Urtica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Urtica dioica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Urtica dioica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons