nettle
Meaning of nettle
noun
- Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
- Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
- Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
- To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
Information about nettle
- The plural form of nettle is: nettles.
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Hyphenation of nettle
net-tle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- nettle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
nettle synonyms
Meaning urticate:
Meaning annoy:
annoy, rag, bother, irritate, rile, nark, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Translation of nettle
- German: ärgern, nerven, verärgern
- French: importuner, ortie
- Spanish: molestar, fastidiar, importunar, irritar, incomodar, ortiga
- Italian: infastidire, scomodare, importunare, ortica
- Portuguese: incomodar
Anagrams of nettle
Words that rhyme with nettle
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