euphorbiaceous

American  

[yoo-fawr-bee-ey-shuhs] / yuˌfɔr biˈeɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family of plants.

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euphorbiaceous British  

/ juːˌfɔːbɪˈeɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia

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Etymology

Origin of euphorbiaceous

1850–55; < New Latin Euphorbiace ( ae ) name of family ( see euphorbia, -aceae) + -ous

Example Sentences

Manihot utilissima.—This euphorbiaceous plant yields cassava or mandiocca meal.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

Turnsole, turn′sōl, n. a name sometimes given to the Heliotrope and other plants, esp. to the euphorbiaceous Chrozophora tinctoria, from which a deep-purple dye is obtained.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It is quite low, being composed of heaped-up fragments of shells and coral, overrun with a suffruticose Sida, and stunted bushes of Clerodendrum and Premna, with a glossy-leaved euphorbiaceous plant occasionally forming small thickets.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

We passed a valley with the large thorny acacias of which canoes are often made, and a euphorbiaceous tree, with seed-vessels as large as mandarin oranges, with three seeds inside.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

Pedilanthus tithymaloides.—This euphorbiaceous plant has an acrid, milky, bitter juice; the root is emetic, and the dried branches are used medicinally.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William