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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 cover
Familiarity information: JAPANESE SPURGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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