nettle family
Noun
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A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs (synset 112412262)
is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: order urticales, urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceaesame as: family urticaceae, urticaceae
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