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Definition of Genus Euphorbia
1. Noun. Type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Euphorbiaceae, Family Euphorbiaceae, Spurge Family
Member holonyms: Spurge, Caper Spurge, Euphorbia Lathyris, Mole Plant, Myrtle Spurge, Devil's Milk, Euphorbia Helioscopia, Sun Spurge, Wartweed, Wartwort, Devil's Milk, Euphorbia Peplus, Petty Spurge, Euphorbia Caput-medusae, Euphorbia Medusae, Medusa's Head, Euphorbia Corollata, Flowering Spurge, Tramp's Spurge, Wild Spurge, Euphorbia Marginata, Ghost Weed, Snow-in-summer, Snow-on-the-mountain, Cypress Spurge, Euphorbia Cyparissias, Euphorbia Esula, Leafy Spurge, Wolf's Milk, Euphorbia Hirsuta, Hairy Spurge, Christmas Flower, Christmas Star, Euphorbia Pulcherrima, Lobster Plant, Mexican Flameleaf, Painted Leaf, Poinsettia, Euphorbia Heterophylla, Japanese Poinsettia, Mole Plant, Paint Leaf, Euphorbia Cyathophora, Fire-on-the-mountain, Mexican Fire Plant, Painted Leaf, Euphorbia Amygdaloides, Wood Spurge, Candelilla, Euphorbia Antisyphilitica, Dwarf Spurge, Euphorbia Exigua, Euphorbia Fulgens, Scarlet Plume, Cactus Euphorbia, Euphorbia Ingens, Naboom, Christ Plant, Christ Thorn, Crown Of Thorns, Euphorbia Milii, Euphorbia Dentata, Toothed Spurge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Euphorbia
Literary usage of Genus Euphorbia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"As these races conform fairly well to the genera into which the genus Euphorbia
has been segregated, the writer further proposes to use the names of the ..."
2. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"THE genus Euphorbia has been elaborated by many systematic botanists. Some species
are difficult to discriminate. The seeds as is well known offer excellent ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... and some of the genus Euphorbia; or by the general surface of the Thallus (qv)
in many ... genus Euphorbia ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"... and in his American Botany he has described and figured the plant The Genus
Euphorbia was placed by LINNAEUS in the class Dode- candria, and the order ..."
5. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"ON THE genus Euphorbia. BY JOHN R. JACKSON, ALS, Curator of the Museum, ...
It is to the genus Euphorbia, which gives its name to the order, that we are now ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"LH Pammel has shown that in the seed coats of the genus Euphorbia some marked
... Pammel: On tbe Structure of the Seed-coats of tbe genus Euphorbia. ..."
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