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nettles

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Definition:
any one of several plants covered in hairs which cause a temporary rash and itchy stinging sensation when touched. For most people it will last for only a few hours, for the unlucky few it may blister and last for days.

Many species are edible when cooked as cooking destroys the toxin. The species Laportea canadensis (pictured below) grows in dense clusters in eastern North America, often covering many acres along streambanks and lakes. It is easiest to identify in the fall from the white and green blooms.
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the pony had come to a dead stop at the fence, tossing young Hamish over his head, over the fence, and ignominiously into a nettle patch on the other side.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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he thought everything excellent: the herb brandy, and the bread, and the butter, and above all the salt goose and the mushrooms, and the nettle soup, and the chicken in white sauce, and the white Crimean wine—everything was superb and delicious.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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Behind him, just coming out of the brush and nettles on the far side of the highway, was a woman.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs, criticizing almost everyone except Malfoy, whom he seemed to like.

J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter: Book 1 (1997)
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She found again in the same places the foxgloves and wallflowers, the beds of nettles growing round the big stones, and the patches of lichen along the three windows, whose shutters, always closed, were rotting away on their rusty iron bars

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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