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    NETTLE FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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