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Urtica

noun
1.
A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.  Synonym: genus Urtica.



Related searches:
Urtica dioica
Urtica pipulifera
Urticaceae
family Urticaceae


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... country were visited by insects and cross-fertilised, and thus a closer resemblance would at length be brought about. Another case of close general resemblance, is that of our common white dead-nettle (Lamium album) to the stinging-nettle (Urtica dioica); and Sir John Lubbock thinks that this is a case of true mimicry, the dead-nettle being benefited by being mistaken by grazing animals ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Urtica" :   stinging nettle, Urticaceae, genus Urtica, Roman nettle, nettle family, magnoliopsid genus, family Urticaceae, dicot genus


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