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SPURGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spurge" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spurge"):
Euphorbia dentata; toothed spurge (an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves)
Christ plant; Christ thorn; crown of thorns; Euphorbia milii (somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts)
cactus euphorbia; Euphorbia ingens; naboom (small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra)
Euphorbia fulgens; scarlet plume (Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers)
dwarf spurge; Euphorbia exigua (European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States)
candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica (wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States)
Euphorbia amygdaloides; wood spurge (European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters)
Euphorbia cyathophora; fire-on-the-mountain; Mexican fire plant; painted leaf (poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla)
Euphorbia heterophylla; Japanese poinsettia; mole plant; paint leaf (showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru)
Christmas flower; Christmas star; Euphorbia pulcherrima; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; painted leaf; poinsettia (tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers)
Euphorbia hirsuta; hairy spurge (much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America)
Euphorbia esula; leafy spurge; wolf's milk (tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America)
cypress spurge; Euphorbia cyparissias (Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States)
Euphorbia marginata; ghost weed; snow-in-summer; snow-on-the-mountain (annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk)
Euphorbia corollata; flowering spurge; tramp's spurge; wild spurge (common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts)
Euphorbia caput-medusae; Euphorbia medusae; medusa's head (African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches)
devil's milk; Euphorbia peplus; petty spurge (an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States)
devil's milk; Euphorbia helioscopia; sun spurge; wartweed; wartwort (not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun)
caper spurge; Euphorbia lathyris; mole plant; myrtle spurge (poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil)
Holonyms ("spurge" is a member of...):
Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)
