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Uneliblika (Uneliblikas)
Large chequered skipper (lit. sleep-butterfly), Heteropterus morpheus (someone in the Tallinn Street Name Commission really likes butterflies). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Vaksiku.
Unistuse (Unistus)
Dream, daydream. Another word borrowed from Finnish during the 19th-C language reforms.
Urva (Urb)
Catkin: for want of a better word, a ‘tube-like’ cluster of flowers, usually but not always male, found on various plants: alder, birch, hazel, mulberry, oak, poplar, willow, etc.
Ussilaka (Ussilakk)
Paris, truelove, true-lover’s knot, or herb paris, Paris quadrifolia, from the Latin par:paris, ‘equal’, due to its regular leaves, not the city. Also poisonous, perhaps suggesting its Estonian name: snake’s mane. But uss also means worm; see Ussimäe. One of the Mähe flower-name group, see Aianduse.
