wood nettle

Questions about wood nettle

What is another word for wood nettle?

It depends which wood nettle you mean. In the sense “American perennial herb found in rich woods and provided with stinging hairs; provides fibers used for textiles”, the synonyms are Laportea canadensis. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wood nettle?

WordNet records no antonym for wood nettle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wood nettle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wood nettle

• Full entry for wood nettleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wood nettleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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