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JAPANESE SPURGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese spurge mean? 

JAPANESE SPURGE (noun)
  The noun JAPANESE SPURGE has 1 sense:

1. slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground coverplay

  Familiarity information: JAPANESE SPURGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JAPANESE SPURGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Japanese spurge; Pachysandra terminalis

Hypernyms ("Japanese spurge" is a kind of...):

pachysandra (any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover)


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