# Names, animals and meanings (N)

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jul 1998*

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### mary whalen
*29 Jul 1998, 22:17*

This is Sean Whalen (prion).

Nettle.  Any species of prickly or stinging plants of genus Urtica or
family Urticaceae.  Horn's wife.  Coauthor of the Book of Silk.

Newt.  A small amphibious salamander, usually of genus Triturus.  The
name formed because of an incorrect merging of an ewte (a newte). 
Ewte was the animal's original English name, and it remains in the
word eft. New member of the Ayuntamiento.

Nizam.  Trivigaunti private who takes in Tick for a while.

prion

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