WordNet
nettle family
n. a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs [syn: Urticaceae, family Urticaceae]
Usage examples of "nettle family".
The Mulberry family, Moraceae, formerly regarded, together with the Ulmacece (Elm family), as a division of the Urticaceae (Nettle family), comprises upwards of 50 genera and about 900 species, of very diverse habit and appearance.