n 1  cap  :  a genus (the type of the family Urticaceae) of widely distributed plants comprising the nettles with opposite stipulate leaves with stinging hairs and small greenish flowers having the parts in groups or multiples of four  2  :  NETTLE 1 .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  urat·ic 
 
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