Definition of spurges Spurges
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Wiktionary 
- spurges (Noun)
Plural of spurge.
Part of speech
🔤- spurges, noun, plural of spurge.
WordNet
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| spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | ||
| shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | ||
| euphorbia, genus euphorbia type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice | ||
| caper spurge, euphorbia lathyris, myrtle spurge, mole plant poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil | ||
| euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort, devil's milk not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | ||
| euphorbia peplus, petty spurge, devil's milk an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States | ||
| euphorbia caput-medusae, euphorbia medusae, medusa's head weedy rye grass having long bristling awns | ||
| euphorbia corollata, flowering spurge, tramp's spurge, wild spurge common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts | ||
| euphorbia marginata, ghost weed, snow-on-the-mountain, snow-in-summer annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk | ||
| cypress spurge, euphorbia cyparissias Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States | ||
| euphorbia esula, leafy spurge, wolf's milk tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America | ||
| euphorbia hirsuta, hairy spurge much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America | ||
| christmas flower, christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, poinsettia, painted leaf tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | ||
| euphorbia heterophylla, japanese poinsettia, paint leaf, mole plant showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru | ||
| euphorbia cyathophora, fire-on-the-mountain, mexican fire plant, painted leaf poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla | ||
| euphorbia amygdaloides, wood spurge European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters | ||
| euphorbia antisyphilitica, candelilla wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | ||
| dwarf spurge, euphorbia exigua European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States | ||
| euphorbia fulgens, scarlet plume Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers | ||
| cactus euphorbia, euphorbia ingens, naboom small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra | ||
| christ plant, christ thorn, euphorbia milii, crown of thorns a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- spurge (v. t.)
To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. - spurge (n.)
Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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spurge
spurj, n. a genus of plants of the natural order Euphorbiaceæ, all the species containing a resinous milky juice mostly very acrid.—n. Spurge′-lau′rel, a European evergreen shrub, with yellowish-green flowers, thick leaves, and poisonous berries. [O. Fr. espurge (Fr. épurge)—L. expurgāre, to purge—ex, off, purgāre, to clear.]
Part of speech
🔤- spurge, noun, singular of spurges.
