English > nettle family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs. |
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| Synonyms | Urticaceae, family Urticaceae |
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| Member of | Urticales, order Urticales | An order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae |
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| Members | Boehmeria, genus Boehmeria | false nettle |
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| Helxine, genus Helxine, Soleirolia, genus Soleirolia | One species |
| Laportea, genus Laportea | Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees |
| Parietaria, genus Parietaria | small genus of stingless herbs |
| Pilea, genus Pilea | low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage |
| Pipturus, genus Pipturus | An Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae |
| Urtica, genus Urtica | A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | urticáceas |
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