tread-softly

2 definitions found

tread-softly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tread-softly \Tread"-soft`ly\, n. (Bot.)
     Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
     [1913 Webster]

tread-softly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tread-softly
      n 1: a stinging herb of tropical America [syn: spurge nettle,
           tread-softly, devil nettle, pica-pica, Cnidoscolus urens
           , Jatropha urens, Jatropha stimulosus]