GENUS URTICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Urtica mean? 

• GENUS URTICA (noun)
  The noun GENUS URTICA has 1 sense:

1. a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax

  Familiarity information: GENUS URTICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS URTICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Urtica; Urtica

Hypernyms ("genus Urtica" 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 "genus Urtica"):

stinging nettle; Urtica dioica (perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs)

Roman nettle; Urtica pipulifera (annual European nettle with stinging foliage and small clusters of green flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Urtica" is a member of...):

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