nettle.

1. A plant of the nettle group, many members of which have hairs that cause a stinging irritation when touched.

2. To sting or irritate someone physically with nettles.

3. To annoy someone or provoke a sharp feeling of irritation.

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Words that belong together

• stinging nettle
• patch of nettles
• nettle leaves

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Nettles crowded the narrow path.

He pushed the stinging nettles aside with a stick.

A patch of nettles grew below the abandoned fence.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Noun singular nettle; plural nettles. Verb nettle; nettles; nettled; nettled; nettling. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.