EUPHORBIA PEPLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphorbia peplus mean? 

• EUPHORBIA PEPLUS (noun)
  The noun EUPHORBIA PEPLUS has 1 sense:

1. an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUPHORBIA PEPLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

devil's milk; Euphorbia peplus; petty spurge

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

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

Holonyms ("Euphorbia peplus" is a member of...):

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)

 Context examples 

A selective small-molecule activator of protein kinase C (PKC) isolated from the plant Euphorbia peplus with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ingenol Mebutate, NCI Thesaurus)