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PILEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage
Synonyms:
genus Pilea; Pilea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pilea" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Pilea"):
clearweed; dead nettle; Pilea pumilla; richweed (a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves)
artillery plant; Pilea microphylla (tropical American stingless nettle that discharges its pollen explosively)
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)
Holonyms ("Pilea" is a member of...):
family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)
