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nettle family

DEFINITIONS OF: nettle family

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

Synonyms:
Urticaceae, family Urticaceae
Type of:
dicot family, magnoliopsid family
family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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