family Urticaceae

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family Urticaceae - a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairsnettle family, Urticaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Urticales, Urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceaegenus Urtica, Urtica - a nettle yielding fiber resembling flaxBoehmeria, genus Boehmeria - false nettlegenus Helxine, genus Soleirolia, Helxine, Soleirolia - one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herbgenus Laportea, Laportea - mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettlegenus Parietaria, Parietaria - small genus of stingless herbsgenus Pilea, Pilea - low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliagegenus Pipturus, Pipturus - an Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae