What (who) is nettles - definition
GENUS OF PLANTS
Nettles in folklore; Nettles (folklore)
![Detail of a male flowering [[stinging nettle]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Urt.doi.mal.jpg?width=200 "Detail of a male flowering [[stinging nettle]].")
.jpg?width=200 "Detail of female flowering stinging nettle.")
![The dotted bumps on the leaves of ''[[Urtica thunbergiana]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/蕁麻(咬人貓) Urtica thunbergiana 20220406201651.jpg?width=200 "The dotted bumps on the leaves of ''[[Urtica thunbergiana]]''")
Nettles
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Old Granny Sweat Weed; Nettles; Large-leaved Nettle
·noun ·pl Reef points.
II. Nettles ·noun ·pl Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
III. Nettles ·noun ·pl The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
nettles
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Old Granny Sweat Weed; Nettles; Large-leaved Nettle
n. nettles sting
Nettles (surname)
FAMILY NAME
Nettles or Nettle is a locational surname of British origin, which means a person from a place overgrown with nettles.Dictionary of American Family Names.
Wikipedia
Urtica
Urtica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae. Many species have stinging hairs and may be called nettles or stinging nettles, although the latter name applies particularly to Urtica dioica.
Urtica species are food for the caterpillars of numerous Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), such as the tortrix moth Syricoris lacunana and several Nymphalidae, such as Vanessa atalanta, one of the red admiral butterflies.
The generic name Urtica derives from the Latin for sting.
Pronunciation examples for nettles
1. AUDIENCE: What about nettles?
Dandelion & Quince _ Michelle McKenzie _ Talks at Google
2. Let's eat stinging nettles.
Why Food & Cooking Matter _ Sam Mogannam + More _ Talks at Google
3. Nettle wine goes straight in.
History of Alcohol as a Medicine _ Alex Kammerling _ Talks at Google
4. MICHELLE MCKENZIE: Nettles I see everywhere now.
Dandelion & Quince _ Michelle McKenzie _ Talks at Google
5. And here you can see the nettle.
Fire & Ice - Classic Nordic Cooking _ Darra Goldstein _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of nettles
1. Country singer Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland) is 33.
2. You have hacked back the brambles and strimmed the nettles.
3. We are neutral on that issue but these are nettles we need to grasp."
4. As he was walking he fell into a pile of stinging nettles.
5. I‘m still having nightmares over Iraq –– give me a break!" said guardsman Dominic Nettles.