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EUPHORBIA MILII

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphorbia milii mean? 

EUPHORBIA MILII (noun)
  The noun EUPHORBIA MILII has 1 sense:

1. somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bractsplay

  Familiarity information: EUPHORBIA MILII used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EUPHORBIA MILII (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christ plant; Christ thorn; crown of thorns; Euphorbia milii

Hypernyms ("Euphorbia milii" is a kind of...):

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Holonyms ("Euphorbia milii" 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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