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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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