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SLIPPER SPURGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slipper spurge mean?
• SLIPPER SPURGE (noun)
The noun SLIPPER SPURGE has 1 sense:
1. any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts
Familiarity information: SLIPPER SPURGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
slipper plant; slipper spurge
Hypernyms ("slipper spurge" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slipper spurge"):
candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis (wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica)
Jew-bush; Jew bush; Jewbush; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; redbird cactus; redbird flower (low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties)
Holonyms ("slipper spurge" is a member of...):
genus Pedilanthus; Pedilanthus (tropical American succulent shrubs)
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