Definition of Roman nettle

1. Noun. Annual European nettle with stinging foliage and small clusters of green flowers.

Exact synonyms: Urtica Pipulifera
Generic synonyms: Nettle
Group relationships: Genus Urtica, Urtica

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roman Nettle

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Roman hyacinth
Roman law
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Romanal
Romance
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Literary usage of Roman nettle

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

1. The Great World's Farm: Some Account of Nature's Crops and how They are Grown by Selina Gaye (1900)
"However this may be, the roman nettle, which is a larger species, and endowed with more venomous ' stings' than the common stinging-nettle, ..."

2. Manual of German Composition, with Passages for Translation by H. S. Beresford-Webb (1900)
"And tough skins they must have had, for the poison of the roman nettle is much more severe than that of the two common species.—Rev. W. Houghton. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"... White, and Yellow Dead-nettle. Prior, p. 61. Nettle, Roman. Urtica pilulifera, L.—Lyte. See roman nettle. Prior, p. 165. Nettle, Stinging. ..."

4. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"... the effects of which are said by the natives in many cases to cause death. In England, the indigenous species of nettle are three; viz. 1. roman nettle ..."

5. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1804)
"The roman nettle, figured in our 3d vol. t. 148, is known from both by its globular heads of seeds. Mr. Curtis has most accurately investigated the stinging ..."

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