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Type genus of the Euphorbiaceae very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
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euphorbia
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Word definitions for euphorbia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wolf's-milk \Wolf's"-milk`\, n. (Bot.) Any kind of spurge ( Euphorbia ); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
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For the family commonly called "euphorbias", see Euphorbiaceae Euphorbia ( spurge ) is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the spurge family ( Euphorbiaceae ). Sometimes in ordinary English, "euphorbia" is used to refer to the entire Euphorbiaceae ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any plant of the genus ''Euphorbia''; the spurges
Usage examples of euphorbia.
I may here add that thin slices of the stem of the Euphorbia were placed in the same solution, and the cells which were green instantly became cloudy, whilst others which were before colourless were clouded with brown, owing to the formation of numerous granules of this tint.
He certainly said that euphorbia sometimes produced bleeding of the nose, but it was not a case of sometimes but always.
The track snaked between thickets of bush, the trees mainly euphorbia and acacia, some leather, leaved evergreens and wild olives, all laced with the parasitic growth of rope-thick lianas.
Euphorbias, it is true, grew in considerable numbers, but as they were only of the oil-producing species, and not the kind from which cassava or manioc is procured, they were useless in an alimentary point of view.
Oxalis, Amphicarpaea, two species of Erythrina, a Cassia, Passiflora, Euphorbia and Marsilea.
Again, Euphorbia, a mundane or widely distributed genus, has here eight species, of which seven are confined to the archipelago, and not one found on any two islands: Acalypha and Borreria, both mundane genera, have respectively six and seven species, none of which have the same species on two islands, with the exception of one Borreria, which does occur on two islands.
She was standing still, peering into the shadows under a large specimen of Euphorbia pulcherrima, when I found her.
I recognized some euphorbias, with the caustic sugar coming from them.
I recognised some euphorbias, with the caustic sugar coming from them.
Here the track or gully bed narrowed to a width of not more than a hundred feet, while the steep slopes of the kloof on either side were clothed with scattered bushes and finger-like euphorbias which grew among stones.
And from this sand grew plants and bushes in unimaginable abundance: flowering cactus with bright rose-coloured flowers, fleshy green plants like warus, but with big yellow flowers, sorb apple, Rose of Jericho, bright green euphorbias and dozens of others that Niall had never seen or imagined.
That was the rhododendron in the eighteenth century--and the camellia, the hydrangea, the wild cherry, the rudbeckia, the azalea, the aster, the ostrich fern, the catalpa, the spice bush, the Venus flytrap, the Virginia creeper, the euphorbia.