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SPURGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spurge mean? 

SPURGE (noun)
  The noun SPURGE has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juiceplay

  Familiarity information: SPURGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPURGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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"):

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 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)

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)


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