wood spurge
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Etymology
[edit]Named for its natural habitat, the undergrowth of woods and forests.
Noun
[edit]- An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and the Caucasus, of species Euphorbia amygdaloides.
- 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants : Or, An Herball of Large Extent: Containing Therein a More Ample and Exact History and Declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants ... Distributed Into Sundry Classes Or Tribes, for the More Easie Knowledge of the Many Herbes of One Nature and Property ..., page 186:
- The English wood Spurge, hath diverse tough woody brownish red branches, two foote high or more, bare or naked of leaves, for a space next to the roote, and afterwards set up to the toppes, with many narrow and long leaves, yet broader than those of the Sea Spurge, and nothing so large as the next, somewhat smooth in handling, and without any dentes about the edges, turning reddish in the spring, and more in the sommer time: […]
- 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 532:
- The Wood Spurge, seen so frequently during our country rambles, suggests by its spreading aspect a clever juggler balancing on his upturned chin a widely-branched series of delicate green saucers on fragile stems, which ramify below from a single rod.
- 2013 February 28, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, Random House, →ISBN, page 40:
- We filmed our wild wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides, on a big grassy verge alongside the road by the River Mole.
Hypernyms
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[edit]Euphorbia amygdaloides
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References
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wood spurge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Euphorbia amygdaloides on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Euphorbia amygdaloides on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
