stinging nettle

 

stinging nettle (countable and uncountable, plural stinging nettles)

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

• common nettle, stinger (Bristolian)

• deadnettle

•   stinging nettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Urtica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Urtica dioica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Urtica dioica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons