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Answer for the clue "Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs ", 7 letters:
stachys

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Stachys is one of the largest genera in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae . Estimates of the number of species in the genus vary from about 300, to about 450. The type species for the genus is Stachys sylvatica . Stachys is in the subfamily Lamioideae ...

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Nettle \Net"tle\, n. [AS. netele; akin to D. netel, G. nessel, OHG. nezz["i]la, nazza, Dan. nelde, n["a]lde, Sw. n["a]ssla; cf, Lith. notere.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Urtica , covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging ...