NIKE
First name NIKE's origin is Greek. NIKE means "myth name (goddess of victory)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with NIKE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of nike.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with NIKE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming NIKE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES NĘKE AS A WHOLE:
morenikeNAMES RHYMING WITH NĘKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ike) - Names That Ends with ike:
erssike ferike obike chike frederike lilike mike pike sike thorndike evike perzsike helike dike ulrike ikeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Ends with ke:
federikke anke brooke kandake kanake irenke haloke shermarke vandyke jumoke moke oke peterke mordke annikke asenke elke larke perke viheke blake bourke burke clarke deke drake duke falke harlake hillocke jake locke meinke nyke parke renke rocke rorke rourke sparke tasunke wake thorndyke driske evelake ilke vibeke fiske stoke zeke berkeNAMES RHYMING WITH NĘKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (nik) - Names That Begins with nik:
nik nikalus nikayla nikhil nikita nikiti nikki nikkia nikkie nikko niklas niko nikolas nikolaus nikos niksonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ni) - Names That Begins with ni:
ni'mah ni'mat nia niabi niaire niall niallan niamh nibal nic nicanor nicanora nicea nichele nichol nicholas nichole nicholette nicia nick nicki nickie nickolai nickolas nickolaus nickolette nickson nicky nico nicol nicola nicolaas nicolae nicolai nicolas nicole nicoleta nicolette nicolle nicquel nicson nicu nicul nida nidawi nidra niece niel niels nielsine nien nieve niewheall nigan nigel nigesa nighean nighinn niguel nihal niharika niichaad nijah nijel nijlon nilah nile niles nili nils nimiane nimue nin nina ninacska ninette nineve nini ninon niobe nipa nira nireta niriaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH NĘKE:
First Names which starts with 'n' and ends with 'e':
nabirye nadalee nadette nadie nadine naftalie nahcomence nahele naile nairne najee nancie nanelle nanette nanine nannette nannie nape nareene narolie narve natalee natalie nate nathalee nathalie natuche navarre naylise neale nealie neelie neese nekane nellie nephele nerine neuveville neve neville nixie njemile noe noele noelene noelle noemie nolene norberte norge norice northcliffe northwode norville nourbese novalee nulte nyasore nycole nye nyle nynette nyneve nyseEnglish Words Rhyming NIKE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES NĘKE AS A WHOLE:
pannikel | noun (n.) The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH NĘKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ike) - English Words That Ends with ike:
airlike | adjective (a.) Resembling air. |
aldermanlike | adjective (a.) Like or suited to an alderman. |
alike | adjective (a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. |
adverb (adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion. |
alsike | noun (n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. |
arsmetrike | noun (n.) Arithmetic. |
beastlike | adjective (a.) Like a beast. |
bike | noun (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. |
birdlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bird. |
bishoplike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. |
blocklike | adjective (a.) Like a block; stupid. |
brike | noun (n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril. |
businesslike | adjective (a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. |
catlike | adjective (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly. |
childlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. |
christianlike | adjective (a.) Becoming to a Christian. |
christlike | adjective (a.) Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. |
churchlike | adjective (a.) Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. |
clerklike | adjective (a.) Scholarlike. |
clocklike | adjective (a.) Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. |
courtlike | adjective (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. |
cowlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a cow. |
deathlike | adjective (a.) Resembling death. |
adjective (a.) Deadly. |
dike | noun (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. |
noun (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. | |
noun (n.) A wall of turf or stone. | |
noun (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. | |
verb (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. | |
verb (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch. | |
verb (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig. |
dislike | noun (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. |
noun (n.) Discord; dissension. | |
verb (v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. | |
verb (v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease. |
dovelike | adjective (a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. |
dragonlike | adjective (a.) Like a dragon. |
etter pike | noun (n.) The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera). |
fairylike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music. |
fanlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fan; |
adjective (a.) folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate. |
fellowlike | adjective (a.) Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. |
fiendlike | adjective (a.) Fiendish; diabolical. |
fike | noun (n.) See Fyke. |
finlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fin. |
finpike | noun (n.) The bichir. See Crossopterygii. |
fishlike | adjective (a.) Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish. |
foxlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy. |
gentlemanlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gentlemanly |
ghostlike | adjective (a.) Like a ghost; ghastly. |
glike | noun (n.) A sneer; a flout. |
goatlike | adjective (a.) Like a goat; goatish. |
godlike | adjective (a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. |
handspike | noun (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. |
hearselike | adjective (a.) Suitable to a funeral. |
homelike | adjective (a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly. |
hornpike | noun (n.) The garfish. |
hike | noun (n.) The act of hiking; a tramp; a march. |
verb (v. t.) To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. | |
verb (v. i.) To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. |
infantlike | adjective (a.) Like an infant. |
ladylike | adjective (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. |
adjective (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. | |
adjective (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. |
lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
lawyerlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lawyerly |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH NĘKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (nik) - Words That Begins with nik:
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH NĘKE:
English Words which starts with 'n' and ends with 'e':
niere | noun (n.) One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. |
noun (n.) A receptacle for rags or shreds. | |
noun (n.) A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. |
neyne | noun (n.) Same as Meine. |
nacre | noun (n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl. |
adjective (a.) Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacre ware. |
naeve | noun (n.) A naevus. |
naevose | adjective (a.) Spotted; frecled. |
nagyagite | noun (n.) A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold. |
naive | adjective (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks. |
naivete | noun (n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. |
nale | noun (n.) Ale; also, an alehouse. |
namable | adjective (a.) Capable of being named. |
name | noun (n.) The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class. |
noun (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. | |
noun (n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction. | |
noun (n.) Those of a certain name; a race; a family. | |
noun (n.) A person, an individual. | |
noun (n.) To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call. | |
noun (n.) To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention. | |
noun (n.) To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding. | |
noun (n.) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand. |
namesake | noun (n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. |
nandine | noun (n.) An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black. |
nanpie | noun (n.) The magpie. |
nape | noun (n.) The back part of the neck. |
naphthalate | noun (n.) A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. |
naphthalene | noun (n.) A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline. |
naphthalidine | noun (n.) Same as Naphthylamine. |
naphthaline | noun (n.) See Naphthalene. |
naphthene | noun (n.) A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum. |
naphthide | noun (n.) A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element; as, mercuric naphthide. |
naphthoquinone | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid. |
naphthylamine | noun (n.) One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids. |
nappe | noun (n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two. |
narceine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia. |
narcissine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Narcissus. |
narcotine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia. |
nardine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard. |
nare | noun (n.) A nostril. |
nargile | noun (n.) Alt. of Nargileh |
narine | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils. |
narrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being narrated or told. |
narrative | noun (n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction. | |
adjective (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. |
narre | adjective (a.) Nearer. |
narwe | adjective (a.) Narrow. |
nasopalatine | adjective (a.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. |
nasute | adjective (a.) Having a nice sense of smell. |
adjective (a.) Critically nice; captious. |
natchnee | noun (n.) An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant. |
native | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France. |
noun (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. | |
adjective (a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries. | |
adjective (a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. | |
adjective (a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). | |
adjective (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver. | |
adjective (a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. |
natrolite | noun (n.) A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda. |
nature | noun (n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. |
noun (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. | |
noun (n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect. | |
noun (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience. | |
noun (n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. | |
noun (n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. | |
noun (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. | |
noun (n.) Natural affection or reverence. | |
noun (n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character. | |
verb (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities. |
naufrage | noun (n.) Shipwreck; ruin. |
nauseative | adjective (a.) Causing nausea; nauseous. |
nautilite | noun (n.) A fossil nautilus. |
navarrese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Navarre. |
nave | noun (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob. |
noun (n.) The navel. | |
noun (n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles. |
navigable | adjective (a.) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. |
nazarene | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. |
noun (n.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. |
nazarite | noun (n.) A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. |
naze | noun (n.) A promotory or headland. |
nazirite | noun (n.) A Nazarite. |
neathouse | noun (n.) A building for the shelter of neat cattle. |
nebule | noun (n.) A little cloud; a cloud. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Nebuly |
nebulose | adjective (a.) Nebulous; cloudy. |
necessitude | noun (n.) Necessitousness; want. |
noun (n.) Necessary connection or relation. |
necklace | noun (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament. |
noun (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays. |
neckplate | noun (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2. |
necktie | noun (n.) A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck. |
necrolite | noun (n.) Same as Necronite. |
necronite | noun (n.) Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor. |
necrophore | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle. |
nectarine | noun (n.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach. |
adjective (a.) Nectareous. |
needle | noun (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
noun (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. | |
noun (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting. | |
noun (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. | |
noun (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals. | |
verb (v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles. |
needlecase | noun (n.) A case to keep needles. |
needlestone | noun (n.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite. |
neele | noun (n.) A needle. |
negative | noun (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. |
noun (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no. | |
noun (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto. | |
noun (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative. | |
noun (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture. | |
noun (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
adjective (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative. | |
adjective (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism. | |
adjective (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed. | |
adjective (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative. | |
verb (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove. | |
verb (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill. | |
verb (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract. |
neglective | adjective (a.) Neglectful. |
negligee | noun (n.) An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women. |
negligence | noun (n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. |
noun (n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. | |
noun (n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. |
negligible | adjective (a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration. |
negoce | noun (n.) Business; occupation. |
negotiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. |
neife | noun (n.) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. |
nemaline | adjective (a.) Having the form of threads; fibrous. |
nemalite | noun (n.) A fibrous variety of brucite. |
nematode | noun (a. & n.) Same as Nematoid. |
nematogene | noun (n.) One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene. |
neocene | adjective (a.) More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary. |
neodamode | noun (n.) In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. |
neophyte | noun (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism. |
noun (n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything. |
neossine | noun (n.) The substance constituting the edible bird's nest. |
nepaulese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Nepaul. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. |
nepenthe | noun (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. |
nepheline | noun (n.) Alt. of Nephelite |
nephelite | noun (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash. |
nephoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity. |
nephrite | noun (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade. |
nephrostome | noun (n.) The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. |
neptune | noun (n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. |
noun (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. |
nerite | noun (n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita. |
nervate | adjective (a.) Nerved. |
nerve | noun (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. |
noun (n.) A sinew or a tendon. | |
noun (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. | |
noun (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution. | |
noun (n.) Audacity; assurance. | |
noun (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf. | |
noun (n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects. | |
verb (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm. |
nervine | noun (n.) A nervine agent. |
adjective (a.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. |
nervose | adjective (a.) Same as Nerved. |
nervure | noun (n.) One of the nerves of leaves. |
noun (n.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests. |
nescience | noun (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. |
nese | noun (n.) Nose. |
neithermore | adjective (a.) Lower, nether. |
nettle | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England. |
verb (v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. |