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Definition of Spurges
1. spurge [n] - See also: spurge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurges
Literary usage of Spurges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"spurges reduced. Fig. 1 is a cluster of anthers detached from a male flower ; 2
is a separated female blossom ; and 3 is a section through the same. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The large genus Euphorbia shows great variety in habit; many species, like the
English spurges, are annual herbs, others form bushes, while in the desert ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"They are represented in Britain by the spurges (Euphorbia, ç.t. ... i^ great
variety in habit; many species, like the English spurges, are annual V^JWE^ ..."
4. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1896)
"For the box belongs to the great family of the Euphorbias or spurges, a family
which consists of more than 2500 species, and is spread all over the world, ..."
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