Nettle
noun
A type of plant with leaves that can sting your skin and cause it to feel numb or irritated.
Be careful not to touch the nettle, it can sting your skin.
verb
To annoy or irritate someone.
His constant complaining is beginning to nettle me.
noun
A fine woven fabric made from the fibres of the nettle plant.
The eco-friendly clothing line makes use of fabrics like nettle and hemp.
verb
To sting with or as if with nettles.
I was nettled by the plant's leaves while walking through the forest.
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Disapproving
noun
A type of plant with leaves that can sting your skin and cause it to feel numb or irritated.
Be careful not to touch the nettle, it can sting your skin.
verb
To annoy or irritate someone.
His constant complaining is beginning to nettle me.
noun
A fine woven fabric made from the fibres of the nettle plant.
The eco-friendly clothing line makes use of fabrics like nettle and hemp.
verb
To sting with or as if with nettles.
I was nettled by the plant's leaves while walking through the forest.
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Disapproving
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Use 'nettle' to describe a plant causing a stinging physical sensation, not emotional.
Wear gloves to avoid the nettle's stinging sensation.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Context
'Nettle' often appears in discussions about outdoor activities, hiking, or gardening.
During our hike, we spotted several patches of nettle along the trail.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Touching
The context implies caution - avoid direct contact with nettles due to their sting.
The gardener warned us about the nettle near the roses.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Use 'nettle' to describe a plant causing a stinging physical sensation, not emotional.
Wear gloves to avoid the nettle's stinging sensation.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Context
'Nettle' often appears in discussions about outdoor activities, hiking, or gardening.
During our hike, we spotted several patches of nettle along the trail.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Touching
The context implies caution - avoid direct contact with nettles due to their sting.
The gardener warned us about the nettle near the roses.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Use 'nettle' to describe a plant causing a stinging physical sensation, not emotional.
Wear gloves to avoid the nettle's stinging sensation.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Context
'Nettle' often appears in discussions about outdoor activities, hiking, or gardening.
During our hike, we spotted several patches of nettle along the trail.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Touching
The context implies caution - avoid direct contact with nettles due to their sting.
The gardener warned us about the nettle near the roses.
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
and there's literally only a few places on this whole island that you would ever get a tree. If there were none of these abandoned buildings and structures, you wouldn't get things like this. But this is an elder tree. It's not just the elder, of course, you've got stinging nettles here, you've got this stuff which is burdock,
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The revolutionary power...
But underneath, there's a sharp tang, like nettles and dandelion. The taste of my motherland, Turkey, is a mixture of sweet and bitter. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because I think there's more and more people all around the world today
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Wolves in Yellowstone,...
sleep in the middle day and sleep in the real night and so here's your wildlife watching any sort especially for was going at those early morning late evening hours really help increased your chances of spotting spotting these nettles in a while okay
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Will these Butterflies...
instead it lives its life as a restless nomad that's always on the move tracking the best places at the right moments Painted Lady caterpillars have simple tastes thistles nettles and mallas common
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Bartering for Bunnies PIPE...
us and help with the rabbits here we're gonna bring her blueberry jam some honey maybe some beeswax nettles some other greens from the garden will bring some mushroom logs as many goodies from our
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The amazing ways plants...
and other insects. In some species, trichomes also dispense chemical irritants. Stinging nettles release a mixture of histamine and other toxins that cause pain and inflammation when touched.
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Militant atheism PIPE...
it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses. But I think, actually, the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word "atheism" itself, precisely because it is a taboo word,
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Beautiful Butterfly...
tracking the best places at the right moments painted lady caterpillars have simple tastes thistles nettles and mallows common plants found from africa to the arctic circle
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Bombardier Beetle Sprays...
attack from a hungry crow they far the sort of acid that gives nettles their sting so this is like one of us falling into a nettle patch
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
I also like that countable marine nettles guard battle-scarred count the
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
and there's literally only a few places on this whole island that you would ever get a tree. If there were none of these abandoned buildings and structures, you wouldn't get things like this. But this is an elder tree. It's not just the elder, of course, you've got stinging nettles here, you've got this stuff which is burdock,
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The revolutionary power...
But underneath, there's a sharp tang, like nettles and dandelion. The taste of my motherland, Turkey, is a mixture of sweet and bitter. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because I think there's more and more people all around the world today
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Wolves in Yellowstone,...
sleep in the middle day and sleep in the real night and so here's your wildlife watching any sort especially for was going at those early morning late evening hours really help increased your chances of spotting spotting these nettles in a while okay
Video examples
Will these Butterflies...
instead it lives its life as a restless nomad that's always on the move tracking the best places at the right moments Painted Lady caterpillars have simple tastes thistles nettles and mallas common
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Bartering for Bunnies PIPE...
us and help with the rabbits here we're gonna bring her blueberry jam some honey maybe some beeswax nettles some other greens from the garden will bring some mushroom logs as many goodies from our
Video examples
The amazing ways plants...
and other insects. In some species, trichomes also dispense chemical irritants. Stinging nettles release a mixture of histamine and other toxins that cause pain and inflammation when touched.
Video examples
Militant atheism PIPE...
it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses. But I think, actually, the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word "atheism" itself, precisely because it is a taboo word,
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Beautiful Butterfly...
tracking the best places at the right moments painted lady caterpillars have simple tastes thistles nettles and mallows common plants found from africa to the arctic circle
Video examples
Bombardier Beetle Sprays...
attack from a hungry crow they far the sort of acid that gives nettles their sting so this is like one of us falling into a nettle patch
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
I also like that countable marine nettles guard battle-scarred count the
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Don Kardong
American Athlete
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
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Kate Christensen
American Novelist
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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Hugh Dennis
I dont run much on roads any more but instead stick to the trails around where I live in West Sussex. Im surrounded by hills and so love doing long loops over the South Downs. Give me mud, puddles, flinty paths and nettles any day.
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Robert Webb
English Comedian
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels at the autumn equinox, or that every patch of nettles was once reamed by caterpillars.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
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David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Leaders grasp nettles.
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Don Kardong
American Athlete
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
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Kate Christensen
American Novelist
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
Quote examples
Hugh Dennis
I dont run much on roads any more but instead stick to the trails around where I live in West Sussex. Im surrounded by hills and so love doing long loops over the South Downs. Give me mud, puddles, flinty paths and nettles any day.
Quote examples
Robert Webb
English Comedian
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels at the autumn equinox, or that every patch of nettles was once reamed by caterpillars.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
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David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Leaders grasp nettles.
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