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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD URTICACEOUS

Via New Latin from Latin urtīca nettle, from ūrere to burn.
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PRONUNCIATION OF URTICACEOUS

urticaceous  [ˌɜːtɪˈkeɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF URTICACEOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Urticaceous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES URTICACEOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of urticaceous in the English dictionary

The definition of urticaceous in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Urticaceae, a family of plants, having small flowers and, in many species, stinging hairs: includes the nettles and pellitory.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH URTICACEOUS


agaricaceous
əˌɡærɪˈkeɪʃəs
bombacaceous
ˌbɒmbəˈkeɪʃəs
brassicaceous
ˌbræsɪˈkeɪʃəs
dicacious
dɪˈkeɪʃəs
efficacious
ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
ericaceous
ˌɛrɪˈkeɪʃəs
gracious
ˈɡreɪʃəs
inefficacious
ˌɪnɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
juncaceous
dʒʌŋˈkeɪʃəs
micaceous
maɪˈkeɪʃəs
orobanchaceous
ˌɔːrəʊbæŋˈkeɪʃəs
perspicacious
ˌpɜːspɪˈkeɪʃəs
pervicacious
ˌpɜːvɪˈkeɪʃəs
portulacaceous
ˌpɔːtjʊləˈkeɪʃəs
procacious
prəˈkeɪʃəs
salicaceous
ˌsælɪˈkeɪʃəs
smilacaceous
ˌsmaɪləˈkeɪʃəs
spacious
ˈspeɪʃəs
styracaceous
ˌstaɪrəˈkeɪʃəs
tenacious
tɪˈneɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE URTICACEOUS

ursid
ursiform
ursine
ursine dasyure
urson
Ursprache
Ursula
Ursuline
Urtext
urtica
urticant
urticaria
urticarial
urticarious
urticate
urtication
Uru.
Uruapan
urubu

WORDS THAT END LIKE URTICACEOUS

arenaceous
argillaceous
carbonaceous
chartaceous
coriaceous
cretaceous
crustaceous
diatomaceous
farinaceous
gorgeous
herbaceous
liliaceous
olivaceous
predaceous
proteinaceous
sebaceous
siliceous
solanaceous
the Cretaceous
tuffaceous
violaceous

Synonyms and antonyms of urticaceous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «urticaceous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF URTICACEOUS

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The translations of urticaceous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «urticaceous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

urticaceous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

urticaceous
570 millions of speakers

English

urticaceous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

urticaceous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

urticaceous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

urticaceous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

urticaceous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

urticaceous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

urticaceous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Urticaceous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

urticaceous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

urticaceous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

urticaceous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Urticaceous
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

urticaceous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

urticaceous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Urticaceous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

urticaceous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

urticaceous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

urticaceous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

urticaceous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

urticaceous
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

urticaceous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

netelachtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

urticaceous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urticaceous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of urticaceous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «URTICACEOUS»

The term «urticaceous» is normally little used and occupies the 147.170 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «URTICACEOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «urticaceous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «urticaceous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about urticaceous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URTICACEOUS»

Discover the use of urticaceous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to urticaceous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Phylogeny and Pollination Ecology of Castilleae (Moraceae): ...
Urticaceae and many Moraceae have urticaceous stamens (those that spring out at anthesis and throw pollen away from the flower). Filaments straight in bud are not urticaceous while anthers inflexed in bud may be urticaceous. 54. Anthers ...
Wendy Lee Clement, 2008
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Science
So far as is known to the writer, the present paper is the first and only extant concise and comprehensive account of the olona. The urticaceous genus Touchardia was named and described by Charles Gaudichaud- Beaupre, generally known ...
‎1918
3
The Columbian cyclopedia
E-URTICACEOUS. with approval of Popes Gregory XIII. and Clement VIII., the order was spread over many dioceses of Italy. It was warmly encouraged by St. Charles Borromeo (q.v.), aud, at his death there were 28 convents of the order in his ...
‎1897
4
An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants
Whether the poorly developed latex system of some urticaceous genera such as Laportea and Urera is vestigial or (in contrast) rudimentary remains to be determined. Recognition of the Cannabaceae and Cecropiaceae as families distinct ...
Arthur Cronquist, 1981
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Annals of Botany
Transverse section of the nodal region of a year-old stem of the American Elm ( Ulmus americana) to show the absence of foliar rays in an Urticaceous woody axis. Fig. 14. A foliar segment of Ulmus americana, and its internally subtending ...
Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1921
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
The latter circumstance renders the cow-tree still more interesting; for the milky juice of Urticaceous plants is in other cases highly poisonous. But botanists are now acquainted with many instances of innocuous plants in poisonous orders ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1837
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
The latter circumstance renders the cow-tree still more interesting; for the milky juice of Urticaceous plants is in other cases highly poisonous. But botanists are now acquainted with many instances of innocuous plants in poisonous orders ...
‎1837
8
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of ...
The latter circumstance renders the cow-tree still more interesting; for the milky juice of Urticaceous plants is in other cases highly poisonous. But botanists are now acquainted with many instances of innocuous plants in poisonous orders ...
Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge, 1837
9
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
... on the other, into uV apctalous imperfect Sanguisorbem ; the Onagraceous type. highly developed in Fuchsia, and almost obliterated ro Haloragea?; the Urticaceous, in excess in Artocorpus, and most imperfect in Ceratophyllum ; grasses, ...
George Long, 1837
10
The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
The latter circumstance renders the cow-tree still more interesting; for the milky juice of Urticaceous plants is in other cases highly poisonous. But botanists are now acquainted -with many instances of innocuous plants in poisonous orders ...
Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, George Long, 1837

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« EDUCALINGO. Urticaceous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/urticaceous>. May 2024 ».
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