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stinging nettles

stinging nettles is the plural of stinging nettle.

Meaning of stinging nettle

Noun

stinging nettle (countable and uncountable, plural stinging nettles)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    common nettle, stinger

Questions about stinging nettles

What is stinging nettles the plural of?
Stinging nettles is the plural of stinging nettle.

Words near stinging nettles in the dictionary

  1. stinginesses
  2. stinging
  3. stinging catfish
  4. stinging catfishes
  5. stinging nettle
  6. stinging nettles
  7. stinging out
  8. stingingly
  9. stingingness
  10. stingings
  11. stingless

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