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stingy nettle

stingy nettle is the alternative form 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

Forms of stingy nettle

pluralstingy nettles

Questions about stingy nettle

What is stingy nettle the alternative form of?
Stingy nettle is the alternative form of stinging nettle.

Words near stingy nettle in the dictionary

  1. stings
  2. stings in tails
  3. stings in the tail
  4. stingy
  5. stingy gut
  6. stingy nettle
  7. stingy nettles
  8. stink
  9. stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
  10. stink a dog off a gut wagon
  11. stink a skunk off a gut wagon

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