PARIETARIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small genus of stingless herbs

Synonyms:

genus Parietaria; Parietaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Parietaria" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Parietaria"):

Parietaria difussa; pellitory; pellitory-of-the-wall; wall pellitory (herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers)

Holonyms ("Parietaria" is a member of...):

family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)