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Definition of Spurge family
1. Noun. A family of plants of order Geraniales.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Geraniales, Order Geraniales
Member holonyms: Euphorbia, Genus Euphorbia, Acalypha, Genus Acalypha, Genus Croton, Codiaeum, Genus Codiaeum, Genus Mercurialis, Mercurialis, Genus Ricinus, Ricinus, Cnidoscolus, Genus Cnidoscolus, Genus Jatropha, Jatropha, Genus Hevea, Hevea, Rubber Tree, Genus Manihot, Manihot, Aleurites, Genus Aleurites, Genus Pedilanthus, Pedilanthus, Genus Sebastiana, Sebastiana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurge Family
Literary usage of Spurge family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"spurge family. 1805." Monoecious or dioecious herbs, shrubs or trees, with acrid
often milky sap. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"spurge family. Monoecious or dioecious herbs, shrubs or trees, with acrid often
milky sap. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate, entire or toothed, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"spurge family. Monoecious or dioecious herbs, shrubs or trees, with acrid often
milky sap. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate, entire or toothed, ..."
4. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"spurge family. EUPHORBIA GEYERI Engelm. Geyer's Spurge. Univ. ... This and others
of the spurge family will furnish teachers with;- good material for the ..."
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