nettle

In botany, nettle means:

• mostly the great nettle ( Urtica dioica ), but also other Urtica species
• the nettle family (Urticaceae), a family of plants with different genera such. B. the nettles
• a nettle-like plant that does not belong to the nettle family, e.g. B. Dead nettle (Lamium species)
• the fiber nettle , a variety of the greater nettle

Nettle is also a name for:

• the nettle cloth , a coarse cotton fabric with structure like the real nettle from the nettle
• the cnidarians ( nettle cells )
• the nettle , a warfare agent

Nessel is the family name of:

• Franz Jakob Nessel (1808–1862), district judge and member of the state parliament
• Xaver Joseph Nessel (1834–1918), Mayor of Haguenau and German member of the Reichstag

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Wiktionary: nettle  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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