cnidoscolus urens

Questions about cnidoscolus urens

What does cnidoscolus urens mean?

cnidoscolus urens means "a stinging herb of tropical America".

What is another word for cnidoscolus urens?

Close synonyms include spurge nettle, tread-softly, devil nettle, pica-pica, Jatropha urens. 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 cnidoscolus urens a common word?

cnidoscolus urens 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.