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Nettles

Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

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📖 Definitions of "Nettles"

noun

1
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
2
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
3
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
4
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

verb

1
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
"The children were badly nettled after playing in the field."
2
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.

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vexnoun	(Scotland, obsolete) A trouble.
annoynoun	(literary, archaic) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
bothernoun	Trouble, inconvenience.
get atverb	To manage to gain access to.
narknoun	(UK, Ireland) A police spy or informer.
get toverb	(transitive) To reach or arrive at (a physical or abstract destination, or state of doing a certain activity).
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stingingnoun	The act by which someone receives a sting.
irksnoun	An annoyance.
vexesverb	(transitive) To annoy, irritate.
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nettleclothnoun	(historical) A kind of cloth made from nettles.