| 单词 | stinging nettle |
| 释义 | stinging nettle in British Englishnoun nettle (sense 1) nettle in British English (ˈnɛtəl) noun 1. any weedy plant of the temperate urticaceous genus Urtica, such as U. dioica (stinging nettle), having serrated leaves with stinging hairs and greenish flowers 2. any of various other urticaceous plants with stinging hairs or spines 3. any of various plants that resemble urticaceous nettles, such as the dead-nettle, hemp nettle, and horse nettle 4. grasp the nettle verb (transitive) 5. to bother; irritate 6. to sting as a nettle does Derived forms nettle-like (ˈnettle-ˌlike) adjective nettly (ˈnettly) adjective Word origin Old English netele; related to Old High German nazza (German Nessel)stinging nettle in American Englishnoun 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 Word origin [1515–25]This word is first recorded in the period 1515–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: badger, cabala, engage, pioneer, unloadExamples of 'stinging nettle' in a sentence |
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