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Noun: Cnidoscolus urens
  1. A stinging herb of tropical America
    "The Cnidoscolus urens's painful sting earned it the name tread-softly";
    - spurge nettle, tread-softly, devil nettle, pica-pica, Jatropha urens, Jatropha stimulosus

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: Cnidoscolus, genus Cnidoscolus

Encyclopedia: Cnidoscolus urens