spurge

/spurj/US // spɜrdʒ //UK // (spɜːdʒ) //

刺猬,刺猬草,刺芹,刺猬头

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.

Dog-violets, barren strawberry, and the yellowish-green spurge are in flower there now.
The milky juice of the common cypress spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias) will cure warts.
The spurge plants were long ago covered up by drifting sand, and the caterpillars were all destroyed.
Certain vegetable juices have also been recommended for the same purpose; as spurge and acacia.
This is the case with the spurge-feeding D. Euphorbi, so common in many parts of Germany.