artillery plant

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   tropical American stingless nettle that discharges its pollen explosively

   SynonymsPilea microphylla

   Broadernettle

   Part ofPilea

Questions about artillery plant

What does artillery plant mean?

artillery plant means "tropical American stingless nettle that discharges its pollen explosively".

What is another word for artillery plant?

Close synonyms include Pilea microphylla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artillery plant a common word?

artillery plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.