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Definition of Dead nettle

1. Noun. Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome.

2. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips.

3. Noun. Coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle; common as a weed in United States.

4. Noun. A plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves.

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Literary usage of Dead nettle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"... Dead-nettle, w«h elegantly jagged Leaves. which it differs in the Colour oí ... very like our common Dead-nettle, except in the Difference of the Leaf. ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"156 Pedicularis palustris is so called. dead nettle (i^ Turn. Lib. ... dead nettle, Yellow. Lamium Galeobdolon, Cr.—Prior, p. 64. Dead Tongue. ..."

3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"There are still other dead nettles among which may be noted the "hemp dead nettle" (Galeopsis tetra/iit). This plant is also known as "bee nettle", ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The mime is derived from the popular belief that the hairs of the dead nettle, particularly when the. plant is dried, as in haymaking, cause irritation in ..."

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