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

Derived forms: pica-picas

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, maggie [dialect], magpie

Part of: Cnidoscolus, genus Cnidoscolus

Encyclopedia: Pica pica