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US
/ˈspɝdʒ/
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[ UK /spˈɜːdʒ/ ]
[ UK /spˈɜːdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
How To Use spurge In A Sentence
- In the spurges, as in the other members of the order, the flowers are very simple, being often reduced to a single stamen or pistil (Fig. 109, _M_, _N_). Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- The famous surgeon, Cheselden, employed a noted plaster made with the resin of Spurge for relieving disease of the hip joint by counterstimulation. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- However, it is not effective on toadflax, spurge or mustards and has limited activity on houndstongue and blueweed. Undefined
- Euphorbia includes rhizomatous weeds of grainfields (the spurges), large shrubs like Poinsettia, small bushes (crown of thorns) and cactus-like forms. Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb
- Flynn and councilwomen Amy Spurgeon and Wendy Lassetter, who were sworn in last month after being appointed by Gov. The Times-Journal: News
- Suddenly it was mid-June and noxious weeds—leafy spurge, cheatgrass, hoary cress, Canada thistle—grew everywhere. Bird Cloud
- Spurgeon once said that Methodism was a noble thing for the unconverted but terrible for the children of God.
- Spurgeon has consistently across this century introduced generation after generation of Bible preachers to Calvinism.
- Then there were six-legged dogs, offoxes, cantileps and spurges. Dinosaur Planet
- All summer we fight Bermuda grass, nut grass, crabgrass, goosegrass, Dallis grass, spurge, pigweed and others.