Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Euphorbia; spurge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any kind of spurge, esp.
Euphorbia Cyparissias .
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- noun botany Any kind of
spurge , especially Euphorbia cyparissias.
Etymologies
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Latin tithymalus a plant with a milklike sap, from Ancient Greek: compare French tithymale.
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Examples
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"The ancients mention many medicaments, which draw out the teeth without iron instruments or which make them more easy to draw out; such as the milky juice of the tithymal with pyrethrum, the roots of the mulberry and caper, citrine arsenic, aqua fortis, the fat of forest frogs.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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