genus pilea
Noun
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Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage (synset 112415378)
is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: family urticaceae, nettle family, urticaceae - a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairssame as: pilea
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