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NETTLE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs
Synonyms:
family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nettle family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "nettle family"):
genus Urtica; Urtica (a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax)
Boehmeria; genus Boehmeria (false nettle)
genus Helxine; genus Soleirolia; Helxine; Soleirolia (one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb)
genus Laportea; Laportea (mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle)
genus Parietaria; Parietaria (small genus of stingless herbs)
genus Pilea; Pilea (low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage)
genus Pipturus; Pipturus (an Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae)
Holonyms ("nettle family" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
