spurge

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The same plants grow from both alike--spurge, cistus, rue, and henbane, constant to the desolation of abandoned dwellings.

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Euphorbia, characteristically having milky juice and small unisexual flowers that are surrounded by a cuplike structure composed of fused bracts.

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  • From the shore of Wallersee, our road led us straight through arching groves, which the axe seems never to have violated, to the summit of a rock covered with spurge-laurel, and worn by the course of torrents into innumerable craggy forms. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • However, it is not effective on toadflax, spurge or mustards and has limited activity on houndstongue and blueweed.
  • I just got done transplanting some leafy spurge, hounds tongue, and spotted nap weed into my garden. —  billingsgazette.com
  • (Vinca minor) and Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis). —  theithacajournal.com -
  • Leafy spurge, abundant in northern states west of the Mississippi River and some rangeland west of the Rockies, will likely retreat from some places in the face of climate change, creating restoration possibilities in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota - but potentially expanding into parts of Canada not included in the researchers 'study. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
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  1. Middle English, from Old French espurge, from espurgier, to purge (from its use as a purgative), from Latin expūrgāre; see expurgate.

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  1. from Middle English spurgen, spourgen, spowrgen, from Old French espurger, espourger = Spanish Portuguese expurgar = Italian spurgare, from Latin expurgare, purge, cleanse: see expurgate, and cf. purge.
  2. from Middle English sporgen, spowrge, from Old French spurge, espurge, spurge, from Old French espurger, purge: see spurge.
 

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