English > nettle family: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | 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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