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Noun: devil nettle
  1. A stinging herb of tropical America
    - spurge nettle, tread-softly, pica-pica, Cnidoscolus urens, Jatropha urens, Jatropha stimulosus

Derived forms: devil nettles

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: Cnidoscolus, genus Cnidoscolus