English > spurge: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice. |
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| Member of | Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia | type genus of the Euphorbiaceae |
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| Narrower | Japanese poinsettia, mole plant, paint leaf, Euphorbia heterophylla | showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru |
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| candelilla, Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States |
| caper spurge, myrtle spurge, mole plant, Euphorbia lathyris | poisonous Old World spurge |
| crown of thorns, Christ thorn, Christ plant, Euphorbia milii | Somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar / Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts |
| cypress spurge, Euphorbia cyparissias | Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress |
| dwarf spurge, Euphorbia exigua | European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States |
| fire-on-the-mountain, painted leaf, Mexican fire plant, Euphorbia cyathophora | poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico |
| hairy spurge, Euphorbia hirsuta | Much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America |
| leafy spurge, wolf's milk, Euphorbia esula | tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America |
| medusa's head, Euphorbia medusae, Euphorbia caput-medusae | African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches |
| naboom, cactus euphorbia, Euphorbia ingens | small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra |
| petty spurge, devil's milk, Euphorbia peplus | An Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States |
| poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima | Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
| scarlet plume, Euphorbia fulgens | Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers |
| snow-on-the-mountain, snow-in-summer, ghost weed, Euphorbia marginata | Annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk |
| sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort, devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia | not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun |
| toothed spurge, Euphorbia dentata | An annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves |
| wild spurge, flowering spurge, tramp's spurge, Euphorbia corollata | Common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts |
| wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides | European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | euforbio, tártago |
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