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Laportea

noun

mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle

• Syn: ↑genus Laportea

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Urticaceae, ↑family Urticaceae, ↑nettle family

• Member Meronyms: ↑wood nettle, ↑Laportea canadensis, ↑Australian nettle, ↑Australian nettle tree

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\\ləˈpōrd.ēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Laporte, 19th century person otherwise unidentified

: a genus of perennial chiefly tropical stinging herbs or trees (family Urticaceae) having large serrate leaves and axillary stipules — see australian nettle tree, woodnettle

Useful english dictionary. 2012.