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nettleAny of a group of weedy plants with stinging hairs on oval, tooth-edged leaves; the hairs contain nerve poisons that penetrate the skin and cause a rash. The flowers are small and greenish, carried on spikes emerging at the same point where the leaves join the stem. The common nettle (U. dioica) grows on waste ground in Europe and North America, where it was introduced. (Genus Urtica, family Urticaceae.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse. Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns. The sensation was as bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war. |
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