Laportea

Definitions of Laportea
  1. noun
    mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle
    synonyms: genus Laportea
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    type of:
    dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
    genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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