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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The spurge-nettle, Jatropha urens, variety stimulosa (or J. stimulosa), found from Virginia to Florida and Louisiana.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Spurge nettle. See under nettle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Cnidoscolus stimulosus, the spurge nettle.
  • noun Solanum carolinense, the Carolina horsenettle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a stinging herb of tropical America

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