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DEAD NETTLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves

Synonyms:

clearweed; dead nettle; Pilea pumilla; richweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

nettle (any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae))

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Pilea; Pilea (low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle; common as a weed in United States

Synonyms:

dead nettle; Galeopsis tetrahit; hemp nettle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

Galeopsis; genus Galeopsis (erect annual European herbs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dead nettle"):

Lamium album; white dead nettle (European dead nettle with white flowers)

henbit; Lamium amplexicaule (Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Lamium; Lamium (genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome

Synonyms:

dead nettle; hedge nettle; Stachys sylvatica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dead nettle" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("dead nettle" is a member of...):

genus Stachys; Stachys (large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia)

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