HyperDic: nettle_family

English > 1 sense of the expression nettle family:
NOUNplantnettle family, Urticaceae, family Urticaceaea family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs
English > nettle family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningA family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs.
SynonymsUrticaceae, family Urticaceae
Member ofUrticales, order UrticalesAn order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae
MembersBoehmeria, genus Boehmeriafalse nettle
Helxine, genus Helxine, Soleirolia, genus SoleiroliaOne species
Laportea, genus LaporteaMostly tropical stinging herbs or trees
Parietaria, genus Parietariasmall genus of stingless herbs
Pilea, genus Pilealow-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage
Pipturus, genus PipturusAn Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae
Urtica, genus UrticaA nettle yielding fiber resembling flax
Broaderdicot family, magnoliopsid familyfamily of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishurticáceas

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