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• n  any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
• v  sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
• v  cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• The nettle's little stinger is one of nature's meanest masterpieces.
• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bound by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnt know enough to stay in the city.
• Calvin Hoffman, a reporter, drama critic, Shakespearean scholar, is the first man to try to grasp this nettle firmly.

• urticate
• annoy
• rag
• get to
• bother
• get at
• irritate
• rile
• nark
• gravel
• vex
• chafe
• devil

News & Articles

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• Researchers from ODU find edible plants in Va. forests
  FREDERICKSBURG Walk down any nature trail, field or patch of woods in the Fredericksburg area, and you pass by a veritable feast of edible plants. But most people don't know the difference between the edible and tasty false nettle, and poison hemlock — both of which grow along the Rappahannock River.
  June 30, 2013 - The Virginian-Pilot