| 单词 | nettle-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈnettle-like ˈnettle-like adj. resembling a nettle or its sting. ΚΠ 1706 E. Ward Poems Divers Subj. 342 Cherish no Factious Leaders in your Court, For, Nettle-like, if stroak'd, they'll do you hurt. 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 59 Many species, on being handled, affect with a nettle-like burning. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. xiii. 310 Open waste places are covered everywhere with a nettle-like wild mint. 1900 New Eng. Mag. Feb. 683/1 Any person can test the nettle-like action of these hairs by handling a brown-tail caterpillar or two. 1989 Best 14 Apr. 37/2 Lamium maculatum, (Spotted dead nettle) Low, spreading, nettle-like plant with no sting. < as lemmas |
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