spurge nettle

Questions about spurge nettle

What does spurge nettle mean?

spurge nettle means "a stinging herb of tropical America".

What is another word for spurge nettle?

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

spurge nettle 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.