Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Urticaceae"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Urticaceous \Ur`ti*ca"ceous\, a. (Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order ({Urticace[ae]}) 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Urticaceae
n : a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles
with stinging hairs [syn: {Urticaceae}, {family
Urticaceae}, {nettle family}]
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