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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of or pertaining to the Urticaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (
Urticaceæ ) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order
Urticaceae of plants, of which the nettle is the type.
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