cricket vs nettle

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

nettle

noun
  • Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis); 

  • Urtica incisa (Australian nettle); 

  • Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle, 

  • ball nettle (Solanum carolinense); 

  • Various species of the genus Dendrocnide 

  • Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle), 

  • Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle, 

  • rock nettle (Eucnide); 

  • small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla). 

  • Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; 

  • false nettle (Boehmeria, family Urticaceae); 

  • flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus); 

  • hedge nettle (Stachys); 

  • hemp nettle (Galeopsis); 

  • Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle, 

  • horse nettle Agastache urticifolia, 

  • Celtis (hackberry). 

  • nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae). 

  • Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle; 

  • dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle; 

  • Urtica ferox (tree nettle); 

  • Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle; 

  • Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle. 

  • Urera baccifera (scratchbush), 

verb
  • Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone. 

  • To pique, irritate, vex or provoke. 

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