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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of apetalous plants, the nettles, type of the order Urticaceæ and tribe Urticeæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of plants including the common nettles. See nettle, n.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax

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