PIPTURUS

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Meaning:

An Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae

Synonyms:

genus Pipturus; Pipturus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pipturus" 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 "Pipturus"):

Pipturus argenteus; Queensland grass-cloth plant (Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth)

Pipturus albidus (Hawaiian tree of genus Pipturus having a bark (tapa) from which tapa cloth is made)

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

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