urticaceous

English

Etymology

Urticaceae + -ous

Adjective

urticaceous (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, Urticaceae, of which the nettle is the type.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for urticaceous in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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