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HEDGE NETTLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome

Synonyms:

dead nettle; hedge nettle; Stachys sylvatica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hedge nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("hedge nettle" is a member of...):

genus Stachys; Stachys (large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere

Synonyms:

hedge nettle; Stachys palustris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hedge nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("hedge nettle" is a member of...):

genus Stachys; Stachys (large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia)

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