stinging nettles

A form of stinging nettle — A nettle; a member of any the species of genus Urtica, which cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially Urtica dioica, originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of stinging nettle
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