LAPORTEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laportea mean? 

• LAPORTEA (noun)
  The noun LAPORTEA has 1 sense:

1. mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle

  Familiarity information: LAPORTEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAPORTEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Laportea; Laportea

Hypernyms ("Laportea" 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 "Laportea"):

Laportea canadensis; wood nettle (American perennial herb found in rich woods and provided with stinging hairs; provides fibers used for textiles)

Australian nettle; Australian nettle tree (any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea)

Holonyms ("Laportea" is a member of...):

family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)