Dead Nettle Definition

noun
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.
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Origin of Dead Nettle

  • So called because it looks like a nettle but does not sting

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dead Nettle Sentence Examples

  • In Labiate plants, as the dead-nettle (Lamium), the flowers are produced in the axil of each of the foliage leaves of the plant, and they appear as if arranged in a simple whorl of flowers.

  • So also in Labiatae, such as dead-nettle (Lamium), the different whorls of inflorescence are developed centripetally, while the florets of the verticillaster are centrifugal.

  • Contracted form (Verticillaster), Dead-nettle, Pelargonium.

  • In winter wheat, crop density is an important factor in limiting seed production by red dead-nettle through the effect on weed biomass.

  • Who hasn't sucked the nectar from the flower of the dead nettle?

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