stinging tree

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The pain of the stinging tree is intense.

From NewsForKids.net

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

From NewsForKids.net

Climate change causes greening in the Arctic, and the peptide that gives the Giant Stinging Tree its sting.

From Nature

The trees so often harm people that many of their habitats are marked by cautionary signage, warning unwary visitors to “beware the stinging tree.”

From New York Times

The researchers named the minute, pain-causing molecules gympietides, in homage to gympie-gympie, the word for stinging tree in the language of the Gubbi Gubbi people, a group of Indigenous Australians.

From New York Times