A Eurasian and North African plant of the mint family, with leaves that resemble those of a nettle but lack stinging hairs.
野芝麻
Lamium and related genera, family Labiatae: several species, including the common white dead-nettle (L. album)
Example sentencesExamples
In the past red and white dead-nettles have been cooked like spinach but they're probably don't come into the gourmet class as they've also been used in making pig-swill.
A few have had minor usage in herbal medicine (such as Lamium album; white dead-nettle).
Stronger than flax, fiber from white dead-nettle was also spun into fishing nets by North American Indians, through a process of decay rather than retting.
The flowering of daffodils and white dead-nettles has been observed at Christmas, and in parts of Scotland people now cut their grass in winter.
Red dead-nettle is common in cereals where it has benefited from the control of more competitive weeds.
Definition of dead-nettle in US English:
dead-nettle
nounˈdɛdˌnɛdlˈdedˌnedl
An Old World plant of the mint family, with leaves that resemble those of a nettle but lack stinging hairs.
野芝麻
Lamium and related genera, family Labiatae: several species, including the common white dead-nettle (L. album)
Example sentencesExamples
In the past red and white dead-nettles have been cooked like spinach but they're probably don't come into the gourmet class as they've also been used in making pig-swill.
The flowering of daffodils and white dead-nettles has been observed at Christmas, and in parts of Scotland people now cut their grass in winter.
A few have had minor usage in herbal medicine (such as Lamium album; white dead-nettle).
Stronger than flax, fiber from white dead-nettle was also spun into fishing nets by North American Indians, through a process of decay rather than retting.
Red dead-nettle is common in cereals where it has benefited from the control of more competitive weeds.