stinging nettle
a bristly, stinging Eurasian nettle, Urtica dioica, naturalized in North America, having forked clusters of greenish flowers, the young foliage sometimes cooked and eaten like spinach by the Scots.
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The stinging-nettle crops up in every bed of flowers we raise; the bitter tonic flavours all we eat and drink.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." | G.J. Whyte-MelvilleThe caterpillars usually feed in companies in June and July on the common stinging nettle.
The Butterflies of the British Isles | Richard SouthOr else, they mingle pepper with the seed of the stinging nettle; 952 and the yellow camomile pounded in old wine.
The common stinging-nettle (Sama) is, by boiling, also prepared into an indifferent food during the quadragesimal low diet.
The Highlands of Ethiopia | William Cornwallis HarrisIt doesn't hurt now, but it was like a stinging nettle—or an electric shock!
Creatures of the Abyss | Murray Leinster
British Dictionary definitions for stinging nettle
See nettle (def. 1)
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