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  • 101dead nettle — noun 1. foul smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome • Syn: ↑hedge nettle, ↑Stachys sylvatica • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Stachys, ↑ …

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  • 102USS Nettle (1862) — was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy from the Union Army during the American Civil War. She served the Navy primarily as a tugboat on the Mississippi River. Wonder transferred from the Army to the Navy as Nettle Wonder , a side wheel steamer …

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  • 103if you gently touch a nettle it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an’ as soft as silk remains — The metaphorical phrase to grasp the nettle, to tackle a difficulty boldly, is often found. 1578 LYLY Euphues I. 212 True it is Philautus that he which toucheth ye nettle tenderly, is soonest stoung. 1660 W. SECKER Nonsuch Professor I. 156 Sin is …

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  • 104The Nettle and Fern Hotel — (Гангток,Индия) Категория отеля: 2 звездочный отель Адрес: Jiwan Theeng Marg,Develop …

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  • 105bull nettle — noun coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States • Syn: ↑horse nettle, ↑ball nettle, ↑ball nightshade, ↑Solanum carolinense • Hypernyms: ↑nightshade * * * noun …

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  • 106horse nettle — noun coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States • Syn: ↑ball nettle, ↑bull nettle, ↑ball nightshade, ↑Solanum carolinense • Hypernyms: ↑nightshade * * * noun …

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  • 107stinging nettle — noun perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs • Syn: ↑Urtica dioica • Hypernyms: ↑nettle • Member Holonyms: ↑Urtica, ↑genus Urtica * * * ˈstinging nettle [ …

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  • 108Spurge nettle — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …

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  • 109The Nettle Spinner — is a Flemish and French fairy tale collected by Charles Deulin. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book .ynopsisA great lord was so cruel to his peasants that they called him Burchard the Wolf. His wife was kind and generous, and would… …

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  • 110burning nettle — gailioji dilgėlė statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Dilgėlinių šeimos vaistinis augalas (Urtica urens), kilęs iš Europos. atitikmenys: lot. Urtica urens angl. burning nettle; dog nettle; dwarf nettle; small nettle pranc. ortie isp. ortiga… …

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