NETTLE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nettle family mean? 

• NETTLE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun NETTLE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs

  Familiarity information: NETTLE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NETTLE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae

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)