stinging nettle

American  

noun

1. 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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stinging nettle British  

noun

1. See nettle

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Etymology

Origin of stinging nettle

First recorded in 1515–25

Example Sentences

The Cold Bloods had been chasing us for what seemed like forever through the woods, but we lost them in the stinging nettles field.

From Literature

But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.

From Seattle Times

There are so many curative properties of stinging nettles.

From Salon

A: The scientific name for stinging nettle is Urtica dioica.

From Seattle Times

"Half of us jumped over a barbed wire fence. The other half crawled through the bushes which were full of stinging nettles."

From BBC