stinging nettle

noun

1. 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.

stinging nettle

noun

1. See nettle

Word History and Origins

Origin of stinging nettle¹

First recorded in 1515–25

Example Sentences

“I also pinch myself or put Deep Heat on so it burns. In trail races I deliberately run through stinging nettles.”

From BBC

Steve did not listen to the part about how to pick and prepare stinging nettles—a lesson he learned painfully—while Cedar called me over to see what she had found under a fallen log.

From Literature

The thieves came in the middle of the night with wire cutters, snipping through the fence and trampling through a brush of stinging nettle.

From Los Angeles Times

But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.

From Seattle Times

There are so many curative properties of stinging nettles.

From Salon