NOUN
- perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs
How To Use stinging nettle In A Sentence
- One was the use of stinging nettle fibres for cordage.
- It was two acres overgrown with stinging nettles and we spent a year putting it right. Times, Sunday Times
- These are like stinging nettle leaves, but do not sting. Times, Sunday Times
- Young stinging nettles are also coming up. Times, Sunday Times
- She makes me want to suck on a stinging nettle in anger. The Sun
- The jagged leaves are like stinging nettle leaves, but do not sting. Times, Sunday Times
- Reading about a "daylily bud and petal salad" preceding a "stinging nettle and sea spinach soup" is almost enough to make one yearn for a wedge of iceberg lettuce drenched in Thousand Island dressing. Gastronomy
- It grows in colonies, and has dark green leaves like stinging nettles, but does not sting since it is a member of the mint family. Times, Sunday Times
- In his pasture, edible weeds like dandelion, chicory, quack grass and even stinging nettles are allowed to thrive.
- A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
