Word Meanings - NETTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U.

Additional info about word: NETTLE

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. chamædryoides 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. Note: The term nettle has been given to many plants related to, or to some way resembling, the true nettle; as: Australian nettle, a stinging tree or shrub of the genus Laportea (as L. gigas and L. moroides); -- also called nettle tree. -- Bee nettle, Hemp nettle, a species of Galeopsis. See under Hemp. -- Blind nettle, Dead nettle, a harmless species of Lamium. -- False nettle , a plant common in the United States, and related to the true nettles. -- Hedge nettle, a species of Stachys. See under Hedge. -- Horse nettle . See under Horse. -- nettle tree. Same as Hackberry. See Australian nettle -- Spurge nettle, a stinging American herb of the Spurge family -- Wood nettle, a plant which stings severely, and is related to the true nettles. Nettle cloth, a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes. -- Nettle rash , an eruptive disease resembling the effects of whipping with nettles. -- Sea nettle , a medusa.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NETTLE)

• Incense
• Inflame
• irritate
• provoke
• sting
• nettle
• exasperate
• chafe
• gall
• Offend
• Displease
• affront
• outrage
• shock
• annoy
• pain
• wound
• vex
• err
• fall

Related words: (words related to NETTLE)

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  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
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  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
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  One skilled in agrostology.
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  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
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  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
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  In a thirsty manner.
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.