stinging nettle

noun

a bristly, stinging Eurasian nettle, Urtica dioica, naturalized in North America, having forked clusters of greenish flowers, the young foliage sometimes cooked and eaten like spinach by the Scots.

stinging nettle

First recorded in 1515–25

The stinging-nettle crops up in every bed of flowers we raise; the bitter tonic flavours all we eat and drink.

The caterpillars usually feed in companies in June and July on the common stinging nettle.

Or else, they mingle pepper with the seed of the stinging nettle; 952 and the yellow camomile pounded in old wine.

The common stinging-nettle (Sama) is, by boiling, also prepared into an indifferent food during the quadragesimal low diet.

It doesn't hurt now, but it was like a stinging nettle—or an electric shock!

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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