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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, of or belonging to the nettles; typified by the genus Urtica: as, the urtical alliance. Lindley.
  • Stinging; capable of urticating; serving for urtication, as the trichocysts of infusorians. See trichocyst.

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

  • adjective Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.

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  • adjective Resembling nettles.

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