silver-leaved nettle

Questions about silver-leaved nettle

What does silver-leaved nettle mean?

silver-leaved nettle means "weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America".

What is another word for silver-leaved nettle?

Close synonyms include trompillo, white horse nettle, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silverleaf nightshade. 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 silver-leaved nettle a common word?

silver-leaved nettle 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.