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
There are so many curative properties of stinging nettles.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
"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
The 25 acres of Feargal Ó Cuinneagán, a veterinarian and corncrake enthusiast near Belmullet, once grew only grass, but now bristle with clumps of stinging nettles, cultivated on rotting bales of straw.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
He’d plunged his hand into a pile of stinging nettles in one hole, and into a clump of mashed blackberries wrapped deceptively in a leather pouch in another hole.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
