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stinging tree

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noun

  1. any of various Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Dendrocnide with rigid stinging hairs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The rainforests of eastern Australia are home to a stinging tree known as Dendrocnide.

From NewsForKids.net Mar. 22, 2024

The pain of the stinging tree is intense.

From NewsForKids.net Mar. 22, 2024

Dodging a swinging lawyer-vine tendril, I ran my face on a stinging tree and was in agony all day.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

About this time I got a small brushing job from a mean person who gave me ten shillings an acre to cut four acres thickly grown with the accursed stinging tree.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

A fabulous story is told of it and a stinging tree called Salato.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George

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