Laportea

Laportea
noun
mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle
Syn: ↑genus Laportea
Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
Member Holonyms: ↑Urticaceae, ↑family Urticaceae, ↑nettle family

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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

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