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  • plural of nettle.
  • present tense form of nettle (3rd person singular).
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Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

Some are well-known to foragers and farmers market shoppers — nettles, morels, garlic scapes.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Working on a rooftop farm in Brooklyn expo sed me to nettles.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

Ahead of them there was nothing to be seen but a track leading through the nettles into another wide and empty field.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams



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