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A jellyfish, or medusa.
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a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceae) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.
n.
The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
n.
An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
n.
A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.
v. i.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
n.
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
n.
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).
n.
The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
n.
Nettle rash. See Urticaria.
v. t. & i.
To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
n.
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
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Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
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A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.
n. pl.
Reef points.
n.
One who nettles.
a.
Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
v. t.
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
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