nettles
Meaning of nettles
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 nettles
- The singular form of nettles is: nettle.
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Hyphenation of nettles
net-tles
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- nettles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of nettles
Words that rhyme with nettles
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