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dead-nettle|ˈdɛdˌnɛt(ə)l|
See also deanettle. The English name for plants of the genus Lamium (family Labiatæ), having leaves like those of a nettle, but which do not sting; esp. L. album white dead-nettle, and L. purpureum red dead-nettle; also applied to L. Galeobdolon (G. luteum) yellow dead-nettle or archangel, and occasionally to species of Stachys or other labiates.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxciii. (1495) 730 Of netles is dowble kynde, one brennyth and bytyth, and another manere hyghte the deed nettyll or the blynde nettyll. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxxxviii. 130 There be two kindes of Dead Nettel. The one..smelleth but little, the other..hath a strong and stinking sauour. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. iv. 43 The white dead-nettle..has no affinity with nettles..except in the shape of the leaves. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. i. 1 The Common White Deadnettle. |