nettle family

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nettle family - a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs family Urticaceae, Urticaceae dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination order Urticales, Urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae 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

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