nettle tree

1. 1.

   any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits

   Synonymshackberry

   Broadertree

   NarrowerEuropean hackberryAmerican hackberrysugarberry

   Part ofCeltis

Questions about nettle tree

What does nettle tree mean?

nettle tree means "any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits".

What is another word for nettle tree?

Close synonyms include hackberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nettle tree a common word?

nettle tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.