EUPHORBIA


Meaning of EUPHORBIA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ yü-ˈfȯr-bē-ə ]

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

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