Nettles, Urtica dioica; Devil’s club, Oplopanax horridum; poison oak, Toxicodendron diversiloba. anam kú áwɨnpta alaˀálaan kunam ččúkta ‘when you touch nettles you itch all over’. See also łamtq̓áx̣. [NW aláala; NP /wet̓etwet̓et/ ‘Urtica lyalli‘ (Aoki 1994:861); cf. NP /ˀalaˀala/ ‘grouseberry, Vaccinium scoparium‘ (Aoki 1994:964); NP /ˀala/ ‘fire’.]
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