bull nettle


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Noun1.bull nettle - coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruitbull nettle - coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States
ball nettle, ball nightshade, horse nettle, Solanum carolinense
nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
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