English-Danish translations for nettle

brændenælde
nældeMan har ikke fattet om en eneste nælde ved roden. Not a single nettle has been firmly grasped. Jeg ved, at det er Kommissionens holdning, at dette er et spørgsmål om subsidiaritet, men det er en nælde, som Unionen nødvendigvis må gribe om. I know the Commission's view is that this is a question of subsidiarity, but it is a nettle the Union will have to grasp. Det er netop, fordi så mange europæiske regeringer har undladt at gribe om de radikale reformers nælde, at Lissabon-processen befinder sig i så store vanskeligheder. It is precisely because so many governments have failed to grasp the nettle of radical reform that the Lisbon process is in such dire straits.

Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash
Certain plants that have spines or prickles
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of ''Urtica''
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle
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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