English > genus Urtica: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax. |
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| Synonym | Urtica |
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| Member of | Urticaceae, family Urticaceae, nettle family | A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs |
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| Members | Roman nettle, Urtica pipulifera | Annual European nettle with stinging foliage and small clusters of green flowers |
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| stinging nettle, Urtica dioica | perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | genus urtica, urtica |
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| Catalan | genus urtica, Ortiga, urtica, Urtica |
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