EUPHORBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphorbia mean? 

• EUPHORBIA (noun)
  The noun EUPHORBIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice

  Familiarity information: EUPHORBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUPHORBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia

Hypernyms ("Euphorbia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Euphorbia"):

Euphorbia hirsuta; hairy spurge (much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America)

Euphorbia dentata; toothed spurge (an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves)

Christ plant; Christ thorn; crown of thorns; Euphorbia milii (somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts)

cactus euphorbia; Euphorbia ingens; naboom (small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra)

Euphorbia fulgens; scarlet plume (Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers)

dwarf spurge; Euphorbia exigua (European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States)

candelilla; Euphorbia antisyphilitica (wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States)

Euphorbia amygdaloides; wood spurge (European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters)

Euphorbia cyathophora; fire-on-the-mountain; Mexican fire plant; painted leaf (poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla)

Euphorbia heterophylla; Japanese poinsettia; mole plant; paint leaf (showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru)

Christmas flower; Christmas star; Euphorbia pulcherrima; lobster plant; Mexican flameleaf; painted leaf; poinsettia (tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers)

Euphorbia esula; leafy spurge; wolf's milk (tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America)

cypress spurge; Euphorbia cyparissias (Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States)

Euphorbia marginata; ghost weed; snow-in-summer; snow-on-the-mountain (annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk)

Euphorbia corollata; flowering spurge; tramp's spurge; wild spurge (common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts)

Euphorbia caput-medusae; Euphorbia medusae; medusa's head (African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches)

devil's milk; Euphorbia peplus; petty spurge (an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States)

devil's milk; Euphorbia helioscopia; sun spurge; wartweed; wartwort (not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun)

caper spurge; Euphorbia lathyris; mole plant; myrtle spurge (poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil)

spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)

Holonyms ("Euphorbia" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

 Context examples 

A polyhydroxylated stilbene extract from the seeds of Euphorbia lagascae, which inhibits protein tyrosine kinase Syk and induces apoptosis.

(Piceatannol, NCI Thesaurus)

A selective small-molecule activator of protein kinase C (PKC) isolated from the plant Euphorbia peplus with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ingenol Mebutate, NCI Thesaurus)

RTX is found in Euphorbia resinifera, a cactus-like plant native to Morocco, which is 500 times more potent than the chemical that produces heat in hot peppers, and may help limit the use of opioid medication while in the hospital and during home recovery.

(Chemical from cactus-like plant shows promise in controlling surgical pain, while leaving touch and coordination intact, National Institutes of Health)