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stinging nettle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables
sting-ing net-tle
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nettle; a member of any the species of genus Urtica, which cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially Urtica dioica, originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

stinging nettles (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

deadnettle

Synonyms

common nettle stinger urtica dioica

Questions

What does stinging nettle mean?
A nettle; a member of any the species of genus Urtica, which cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially Urtica dioica, originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.

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