Preposition: of

• reform: It is time to grasp fully the nettle of reform.

Converse of subject

• sting: Joe needs some new trousers, tho, he was wearing shorts and got stung by nettles!

Converse of object

• grasp: Nowhere in the country has been faster to grasp the biotech nettle than Dundee.

• dry: The dried nettles may well benefit from being left for a while in a mixture of cream and nettle water.

• eat: My advice is to go eat a nettle raw or something, it'll be more interesting.

• include: You just need brightly colored flowers, with a good mix between cultivated and wild flowers, including nettles and thistles.

• use: CAUTION: Do not use flowering nettle for food or medicine.

• sting: Along here we feasted on blackberries, Tammy on the lower ones, whilst the nettles stung our legs reaching the high branches!

Adjective modifier

• stinging: I'd much prefer fresh stinging nettles any day!

• tall: Then, with a deft swing he sent him crashing into a clump of tall nettles, which closed receptively round him.

• dead: Who hasn't sucked the nectar from the flower of the dead nettle?

• common: The regular trampling of cattle can wipe out common nettle.

• young: Garnish with chopped parsley and serve with jacket potatoes and steamed young stinging nettles.

• particular: If the Tories do not grasp this particular nettle then they will slide into oblivion like The Whigs before them.

Modifies a noun

• rash: She has a kind of nettle rash on her back.

• sting: The beginner can rest assured, however that the fear of nettle stings is always far worse than the actual sting.

• infusion: Stinging nettle infusion replaces the nutrients and proteins that Kundalini uses up.

• soup: I seem to remember an attempt at nettle soup was a failure to be polite!

• leaf: The larvae usually spin a web on the upper surface of the nettle leaf which draws the leaf into a folded shelter.

• patch: Garden nettle patch survey Have you got your own nettle patch?