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Word: nettle
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A herb of the genus ''Urtica'', which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or '''sea-nettle'''.
- The non-stinging plant deadnettle, also in the '''nettle''' family, ''Urticaceae'' (named after the above).
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Verb:
- figurative To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.
- literally Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
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