PILEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pilea mean? 

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

1. low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pilea; Pilea

Hypernyms ("Pilea" 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 "Pilea"):

clearweed; dead nettle; Pilea pumilla; richweed (a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves)

artillery plant; Pilea microphylla (tropical American stingless nettle that discharges its pollen explosively)

friendship plant; panamica; panamiga; Pilea involucrata (low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers)

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

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