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stinging nettle
noun
- a bristly, stinging Eurasian nettle, Urtica dioica, naturalized in North America, having forked clusters of greenish flowers, the young foliage sometimes cooked and eaten like spinach by the Scots.
stinging nettle
noun
- See nettle
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stinging nettle1
First recorded in 1515–25
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“I also pinch myself or put Deep Heat on so it burns. In trail races I deliberately run through stinging nettles.”
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Steve did not listen to the part about how to pick and prepare stinging nettles—a lesson he learned painfully—while Cedar called me over to see what she had found under a fallen log.
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The thieves came in the middle of the night with wire cutters, snipping through the fence and trampling through a brush of stinging nettle.
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But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.
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There are so many curative properties of stinging nettles.
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