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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several weedy plants of the genus Lamium, native to Eurasia and northern Africa and having clusters of small, usually purplish flowers with two lips.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle (Lamium album).
WordNet 3.0
- n. coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle; common as a weed in United States
- n. foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome
- n. a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves
- n. any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips
Etymologies
- So called because it looks like a nettle but does not sting. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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