Urtica

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Urtica \Ur*ti"ca\, n. [L., a nettle.] (Bot.)
     A genus of plants including the common nettles. See {Nettle},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Urtica
       n : a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax [syn: {genus Urtica}]