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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EUPHOR'BIA, n. [Gr. with a different signification.]
In botany, spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby herbaceous succulents, some of them armed with thorns.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice [syn: Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, alteration of Latin euphorbea, from Euphorbus, 1st century A.D. Greek physician Date: 14th century any of a large genus (Euphorbia) of herbs, shrubs, and trees of the spurge family that have a milky juice and flowers lacking a calyx and included in an involucre which surrounds a group of several staminate flowers and a central pistillate flower with 3-lobed pistils; broadly spurge

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any plant of the genus Euphorbia, including spurges. Etymology: ME f. L euphorbea f. Euphorbus, 1st-c. Gk physician

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wolf's-milk Wolf's"-milk`, n. (Bot.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Euphorbia Eu*phor"bi*a, n. [NL., fr. L. euphorbea. See Euphorrium.] (Bot.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.