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nettle
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Education of Little Tree
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Nettles make the best greens, but have little tiny hairs on them that sting you all over when you're picking.
Chpt 12. *

nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
One time, Granpa was pulling and dragging the plow around through a mass of nettles, and stepped in a stump hole.†
Chpt 7.
Then the yellow dandelions poked up everywhere along the lower hollow, and we picked them for greens— which are good when you mix them with fireweed greens, poke salat and nettles.†
Chpt 12.
Me and Granpa many times failed to notice a nettle patch, but Granma would find it and we would pick them.†
Chpt 12.

Definitions:

(1) (nettle as in: beware of nettles near the river)
a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
(2) (nettle as in: my nettlesome little sister)
to annoy -- especially with minor irritations
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)