deadnettle

deadnettle

English

Alternative forms

  • dead-nettle

Etymology

By surface analysis, dead +‎ nettle. Compare Dutch dovenetel, German Taubnessel, North Frisian Duufnäädel. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛdnɛtəl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

deadnettle (plural deadnettles)

  1. Any plant of a species in genus Lamium, which closely resembles the nettle, but does not possess stinging hairs.
    • 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 12:
      After studying the book for several minutes, he began to assemble a weird collection of plants and herbs on the floor in front of him. Hemlock and foxglove, ivy and deadnettle, henbane and marigold[.]

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