The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Half of us jumped over a barbed wire fence. The other half crawled through the bushes which were full of stinging nettles."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2023
Our stinging nettles are so important for early green fly.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
His spring menu features salt-cured fluke; scallops with stinging nettles and morels; ramp agnolotti done carbonara-style; salmon with asparagus; and beef tenderloin with artichokes, sun-dried tomato pesto and green olives.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The rats were satisfied that both foxes were dead, and if they were not, well, who was going to climb down through all of those stinging nettles into the slippery ooze to find out?
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
