genus euphorbia
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1. type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | spurge, |
definition | : | any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | caper spurge, euphorbia lathyris, mole plant, myrtle spurge, |
definition | : | poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | devil's milk, euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort, |
definition | : | not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | devil's milk, euphorbia peplus, petty spurge, |
definition | : | an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia caput-medusae, euphorbia medusae, medusa's head, |
definition | : | African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia corollata, flowering spurge, tramp's spurge, wild spurge, |
definition | : | common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia marginata, ghost weed, snow-in-summer, snow-on-the-mountain, |
definition | : | annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | cypress spurge, euphorbia cyparissias, |
definition | : | Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia esula, leafy spurge, wolf's milk, |
definition | : | tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia hirsuta, hairy spurge, |
definition | : | much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | christmas flower, christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsettia, |
definition | : | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia heterophylla, japanese poinsettia, mole plant, paint leaf, |
definition | : | showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia cyathophora, fire-on-the-mountain, mexican fire plant, painted leaf, |
definition | : | poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia amygdaloides, wood spurge, |
definition | : | European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | candelilla, euphorbia antisyphilitica, |
definition | : | wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | dwarf spurge, euphorbia exigua, |
definition | : | European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia fulgens, scarlet plume, |
definition | : | Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | cactus euphorbia, euphorbia ingens, naboom, |
definition | : | small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | christ plant, christ thorn, crown of thorns, euphorbia milii, |
definition | : | somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | euphorbia dentata, toothed spurge, |
definition | : | an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | euphorbiaceae, family euphorbiaceae, spurge family, |
definition | : | a family of plants of order Geraniales (noun.plant) |
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