spurge
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /spɝd͡ʒ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɜːd͡ʒ/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle English spurge, from Old French espurge, from espurgier (“to purge”), from Latin expurgo (“I purge”); the bitter milky sap of these plants was formerly used as a purgative.
Noun
[edit]spurge (usually uncountable, plural spurges)
- Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section X:
- But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
- Any plant of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
- Synonym: euphorbia
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- African milk barrel (Euphorbia horrida)
- African milk tree, cathedral cactus (Euphorbia trigona)
- asthma-plant (Euphorbia hirta)
- baseball plant (Euphorbia obesa)
- candelabra tree
- candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica)
- caper spurge, gopher spurge, paper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)
- cliff spurge, coast spurge (Euphorbia misera)
- copper tree (Euphorbia cotinifolia)
- crown-of-thorns, Christ plant (Euphorbia milii)
- cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides)
- cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)
- devil's backbone, redbird cactus (Euphorbia tithymaloides)
- dwarf poinsettia, fire-on-the-mountain, wild poinsettia (Euphorbia cyathophora)
- glade spurge, purple spurge (Euphorbia purpurea)
- gopher spurge, upright myrtle spurge (Euphorbia rigida)
- Gregersen's spurge (Euphorbia gregersenii)
- Griffith's spurge (Euphorbia griffithii)
- Indian spurge tree (Euphorbia neriifolia)
- Indian tree spurge, milk bush, pencil tree (Euphorbia tirucalli)
- leafless milk hedge (Euphorbia caducifolia)
- leafy milk hedge (Euphorbia nivulia)
- leafy spurge, green spurge (Euphorbia esula)
- Madagascar jewel (Euphorbia leuconeura)
- Mediterranean spurge (Euphorbia characias)
- Medusa's head (Euphorbia caput-medusae)
- mottled spurge, frilled fan, elkhorn (Euphorbia lactea)
- myrtle spurge, creeping spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites)
- painted spurge, painted euphorbia, Mexican fireplant (Euphorbia heterophylla)
- Peking spurge (Euphorbia pekinensis)
- petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus)
- poinsettia, painted leaf (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
- purple spurge (Euphorbia peplis)
- rattlesnake weed, white-margined sandmat (Euphorbia albomarginata)
- resin spurge (Euphorbia resinifera)
- sand spurge (Euphorbia psammogeton)
- scarlet plume (Euphorbia fulgens)
- sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias)
- serrated spurge, sawtooth spurge (Euphorbia serrata)
- spotted spurge, prostrate spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
- sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia)
- tree spurge (Euphorbia dendroides)
- variegated spurge, white-margined spurge, snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie (Euphorbia marginata)
- wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides)
Derived terms
[edit]- Allegheny spurge
- broom spurge
- caper spurge
- cliff spurge
- coast spurge
- creeping spurge
- cushion spurge
- cypress spurge
- glade spurge
- gopher spurge
- green spurge
- Gregersen's spurge
- Griffith's spurge
- Hall's shrubby spurge
- Indian spurge tree
- Indian tree spurge
- Japanese spurge
- leafy spurge
- Mediterranean spurge
- mottled spurge
- myrtle spurge
- painted spurge
- paper spurge
- Peking spurge
- petty spurge
- prostrate spurge
- purple spurge
- purple spurge
- resin spurge
- sand spurge
- sawtooth spurge
- sea spurge
- serrated spurge
- spotted spurge
- spurge daphne
- spurge flax
- spurge hawk-moth
- spurge laurel
- spurge nettle
- spurge olive
- sun spurge
- tree spurge
- upright myrtle spurge
- variegated spurge
- white-margined spurge
- wood spurge
Translations
[edit]any plant of the genus Euphorbia
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References
[edit]- spurge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Euphorbia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Euphorbia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “*spurge*”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Etymology 2
[edit]Uncertain, but likely closely related to etymology 1, thus a doublet of purge.
Verb
[edit]spurge (third-person singular simple present spurges, present participle spurging, simple past and past participle spurged)
- (intransitive) To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.
- 1661, W. Cartwright, Siedge:
- The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.
Translations
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French espurge, from espurgier, from Latin expurgo. Compare purgen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]spurge (uncountable)
Descendants
[edit]- English: spurge
References
[edit]- “spurǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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