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• We must grasp the nettle and make the most of this opportunity.2020 May 6, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: One chance for a new order”, in Rail, page 3. From the entry grasp the nettle
• Some of our most familiar wild plants, such as nettle and red campion, are dioecious.2014 December 12, Ken Thompson, “Do plants have a gender? Most plants are hermaphrodite, but not all – and an interesting situation arises…. From the entry dioecious
• I bridled and bristled, nettled and rankled, then drinkled and drankled some more.2009, Claire Kilroy, All Names Have Been Changed. From the entry drinkle
• A jack-jumper ant crawled over his age – he was 63 – and disappeared into the nettles.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 261. From the entry jack jumper
• Nettlers are passive stingers.They include stinging plants, some are appropriately called nettles, jellyfish and some caterpillars.1992, F. Tom Turpin, The Insect Appreciation Digest, page 70. From the entry nettler
• I wonder whether this could be a fact; hairy oobits do sting, rather like nettles, if angered.1966, Otta F. Swire, The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends, page 100. From the entry oobit
• Or they mix pepper with the seed of prickly nettle and yellow pellitory pounded in old wine.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 208. From the entry pellitory
• His skin was covered with little bumps as though from a nettle rash.1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 99. From the entry nettle-rash
• "You are in an unco' hurry," she replied, getting nettled, as she filled a glass.1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld: The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner, page 192. From the entry snottery
• Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.2021, Allan Haschick, Gardening in the Shade in South Africa. From the entry carpet bugle
• Thus, in a singles bar you’re probably better to stick with jarns, nettles, grawlices, and quimps (comic-book swearing).1997, Ken Weber, Five Minute Challenge #1, Toronto, Ont.: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry grawlix
• In the orchard all attempts to maintain respectability had been abandoned; nettles and rank grass grew high around the fruit trees.1997, Quentin Bell, Virginia Nicholson, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 126. From the entry quarandine
• This year they decided to grasp the nettle.1993 September, “Seeking an identity”, in Guildford Gazette, number 3, page 8. From the entry grasp the nettle
• Preferred host plants are elms (Ulmus spp.), hackberry (Celtis spp.), hops (Humulus spp.), nettle (Urtica spp.), and false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica).1990, Wendy Potter-Springer, “List of Host Plants for Caterpillars”, in Heather Clemow, editor, Grow a Butterfly Garden (A Storey County…. From the entry question mark
• Stewed nettles; savoury messes of chickweed sprinkled with nutmeg; he cooks the foliage of shepherd's purse as if it were cabbage.1979, Angela Carter, “The Erl-King”, in The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, page 98. From the entry shepherd's purse
• Nettled noses can be no delight to the nettled and ought to be no delight to the nettlers.1952, Geoffrey Grigson, Gardenage: Or, The Plants of Ninhursaga, page 69. From the entry nettler
• Not to be confused with devil’s nettle, i.e. yarrow, Achillea millefolium L., allegedly considered the Devil’s favorite plant by witches in some places in Europe.2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things, page 114. From the entry devil's nettle
• Nettles lives in the crosshairs, with the secret police, his sympathizers, and his now and would-be lovers making impossible demands on him.1989 November 3, “Brilliant acting, conception drive ‘Largo Desolato’”, in The Advocate, Louisiana, USA, retrieved 27 Oct 2011. From the entry in the crosshairs
• One is for some reason reminded of the fact that dock leaves, which are good for nettle stings, are always to be found near nettles.1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp that Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 7. From the entry crogglement
• The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347. From the entry raspberrying
• Dwarf nettles, for instance, are not considered a ‘native’ British plant, but they are near universally present and have been recorded in Britain well into the Pleistocene.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 67. From the entry dwarf nettle
• The common jellyfish along the Texas coast are the lion's mane (Cyanea capillata), the sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha), moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), and cabbage head jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris).2011, John Whorff, Kayaking the Texas Coast, page 11. From the entry cabbage head
• On the other hand, the evidence that there is present in nettles another poison, the hypnotoxin, responsible for the paralysis of punctured animals, seems well grounded.1910, Otto Charles Glaser, The Nematocysts of Eolids, page 136. From the entry hypnotoxin
• On top of that I picked a handbagful of nettles in the gardens outside the ruined buildings, elegantly plucking them using the fishnet gloves I saved from my air-raid gear.2005, anonymous author, “Thursday, 7 June 1945”, in Philip Boehm, transl., A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945, Virago…. From the entry handbagful

Meaning of nettle

1. noun Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),.
2. noun Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);.
3. noun Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);.

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How do you use nettle in a sentence?

Nettle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.”

What is a short sentence with nettle?

“This year they decided to grasp the nettle.”

What does nettle mean?

Nettle means most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),.