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