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cypress spurge

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Flowering cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)

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cypress spurge (uncountable)

  1. An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and an invasive species in North America, of species Euphorbia cyparissias.
    Synonym: (US) graveyard spurge
    • 1919, “Diseases of the Eye”, in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, volume 1919, page 103:
      The "American ipecac" (E. ipecacuanha), sometimes used as a substitute for the true Brazilian article, is an eye irritant. The milk of the flowering spurge and the cypress spurge have caused some damage along this line ; […]
    • 1930 April, W. C. Muenscher, “Leafy Spurge and Related Weeds”, in Cornell Extension Bulletin, volume 192, page 10:
      Contact with the sap of leafy spurge and cypress spurge may result in skin blisters and inflamation[sic], and with animals the hair may fall.
    • 2002, “Cypress Spurge”, in Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States, page 205:
      These growers had been harvesting cypress spurge infested hay and selling it for animal food or as construction hay, perhaps assisting the spread of cypress spurge to new areas.

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