English > Pilea: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage. |
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Synonym | genus Pilea |
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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 | artillery plant, Pilea microphylla | Tropical American stingless nettle that discharges its pollen explosively |
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friendship plant, panamica, panamiga, Pilea involucrata | Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers |
richweed, clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla | A plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves |
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 pilea, pilea |
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Catalan | genus pilea, pilea |
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