DEAD NETTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dead nettle mean? 

• DEAD NETTLE (noun)
  The noun DEAD NETTLE has 4 senses:

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

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: DEAD NETTLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEAD NETTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dead nettle; hedge nettle; Stachys sylvatica

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Stachys; Stachys (large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dead nettle"):

Lamium album; white dead nettle (European dead nettle with white flowers)

henbit; Lamium amplexicaule (Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Lamium; Lamium (genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dead nettle; Galeopsis tetrahit; hemp nettle

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

Galeopsis; genus Galeopsis (erect annual European herbs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

clearweed; dead nettle; Pilea pumilla; richweed

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

nettle (any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae))

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Pilea; Pilea (low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage)