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Euphorbia

noun

Type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice. Synonym: genus Euphorbia.

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Euphorbiaceae

cactus euphorbia

family Euphorbiaceae

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"Euphorbia" Quotes from Famous Books

... be picked up. Then, having passed a bend in the river, they ran their canoe ashore in a little cove where the whortleberry and cranberry bushes grew right down to the water's edge, and the sward was bright with the white euphorbia, the blue gentian, and the purple balm. There they laid out their small stock of provisions, and ate a hearty breakfast while discussing what their plans should be ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

... system of veins was countenanced by the following experiment; I cut off several stems of tall spurge, (Euphorbia helioscopia) in autumn, about the centre of the plant, and observed tenfold the quantity of milky juice ooze from the upper than from the lower extremity, which could hardly have happened if there had been a venous system of vessels to return the ...

— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin

Words linked to "Euphorbia" : cactus euphorbia, sun spurge, snow-in-summer, spurge, snow-on-the-mountain, Euphorbia heterophylla, scarlet plume, wood spurge, myrtle spurge, Christ thorn, Euphorbia peplus, spurge family, Euphorbia esula, poinsettia, mole plant, Christmas flower, petty spurge, toothed spurge, wartwort, Mexican fire plant, caper spurge, paint leaf, medusa's head, wolf's milk, candelilla, Christ plant, dwarf spurge, painted leaf, Japanese poinsettia, Christmas star, fire-on-the-mountain, cypress spurge, ghost weed, devil's milk, crown of thorns, lobster plant, tramp's spurge, flowering spurge, rosid dicot genus, wild spurge, leafy spurge, naboom, hairy spurge, Mexican flameleaf, Euphorbia helioscopia, wartweed