The Dead-nettle; also the Hemp-nettle and Hedge Nettle or Wood Woundwort.

Any of various plants, mostly of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), with leaves resembling those of the stinging nettle in shape, etc., but without…

See also dea-nettle, n. The English name for plants of the genus Lamium (family Labiatæ), having leaves like those of a nettle, but which do not…

either of two nettles, (a) red dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum (now historical); (b) †a hemp nettle (genus Galeopsis), perhaps G. ladanum, with…

a Eurasian dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum, with pinkish-purple flowers, commonly found as a weed of cultivated land.

Herbalism. Herbalists' name. of several species of Dead-Nettle and allied plants (Lamium, Galeopsis, Galeobdolon, Stachys).

= dead-nettle, n.

an old name for hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit).

A name given to the species of Lamium (dead-nettle, n.) and other Labiates having nettle-like leaves; but in Scotland and the North of England…

A dead-nettle having purplish-red flowers and upper leaves that clasp the stem, Lamium amplexicaule, native to Europe and Asia but introduced (and…

= hemp-nettle, n.

= dead-nettle, n. (cf. dea-nettle, n.).

With qualifying words: base horehound n. White Dead-nettle, Lamium album. fetid horehound n. Ballota nigra, a common weed with dull purple flowers…

A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs and shrubs of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), several kinds of which are grown ornamentally for their…

the yellow dead-nettle or archangel (Lamium galeobdolon), from the shape of the corolla.

A name for the genus Galeopsis (N.O. Labiatæ), and esp. the common species G. Tetrahit; cf. nettle hemp n. at hemp, n. 5.

(See quot. 1866 at sense a.)

A genus of labiate plants which includes several kinds of dead-nettle; (also lamium) a plant of this genus.