Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A nettle; any of the species of genus ''Urtica'' that cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially ''Urtica dioica'', originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.
WordNet
n. perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs [syn: Urtica dioica]
Usage examples of "stinging nettle".
Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.
A clump of stinging nettle bushes to the right, their green shoots used as flavoring for soups.
Quick and sharp as though she'd slapped him across the face with a stinging nettle.
Brun would poke her nose into every stinging nettle she could find.
Ista recalled childhood encounters with blister-ivy and stinging nettle, and smiled grimly.
Halftvay to the island Serenthas left arm passed through some kind of stinging nettle.
The mixture was mainly camomile and mint, but there was also a sprinkling of dried stinging nettle, which Chara knew was good for the rheumatism that made Maev's fingers ache when she worked at her accounts.
Even talking to him on the phone was like touching a stinging nettle.