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What is the noun for nettler?

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nettle
  1. Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
    1. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
    2. Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
    3. Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus:
    4. rock nettle (Eucnide);
    5. small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
  2. Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
    1. ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
    2. Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
    3. Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
    4. Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
    5. Celtis.
  3. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
    1. dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
    2. false nettle (Boehmeria, family Urticaceae);
    3. flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus);
    4. hedge nettle (Stachys);
    5. hemp nettle (Galeopsis);
    6. horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
    7. nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
  4. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
  5. Synonyms:
nettling
nettlebed
  1. An area of land occupied by growing nettles.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Onions will surely be restored to the front line but to recall Harmison, England must grasp the prickliest thorn in the nettlebed.”
nettler
  1. One who nettles.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's enough to make you wonder whether the Nettler has done any acting in a fresh new and un-used drama recently?”
      “They boasted important, internationally known figures, including John Porter, Gwynn Nettler, Karol Krotki, Maurice Pinard, Richard Hamilton, and Immanuel Wallerstein.”
nettles
  1. plural of nettle
  2. (nautical) Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He wanders in the nearby hills and woods to gather cuckooflowers, cowslips, stitchworts, elder flowers and of course nettles.”
      “This is rarer and is usually caused by weeds such as nettles and docks, late flowering plants and fungal spores.”
      “Distraction could be provided by rubbing the patient with counterirritants such as stinging nettles.”
nettlebeds
  1. plural of nettlebed
nettlings
nettlers
  1. plural of nettler
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