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dead nettle

Any of several weedy plants of the genus Lamium in the mint family, native to Eurasia and northern Africa and having clusters of small, usually purplish flowers with two lips.

[So called because it looks like a nettle but does not sting.]

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Noun	1.	dead nettle - foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome Stachys sylvatica, hedge nettle herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Stachys, Stachys - large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia
	2.	dead nettle - any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Lamium, Lamium - genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits 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
	3.	dead nettle - coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle; common as a weed in United States Galeopsis tetrahit, hemp nettle herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests Galeopsis, genus Galeopsis - erect annual European herbs
	4.	dead nettle - a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves clearweed, Pilea pumilla, richweed nettle - any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) genus Pilea, Pilea - low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage

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