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Language: Old English
Origin: netel

nettle

1 noun
     
Related topics: Plants
net‧tle1 also stinging nettle [countable]
HBP a wild plant with rough leaves that sting you

➔ grasp the nettle

at grasp1 (4), stinging nettle
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