euphorbia
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of euphorbia
1350–1400; Middle English euforbia for Latin euphorbea, an African plant named after Euphorbos, a Greek physician
Example Sentences
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In late spring there are parrot tulips everywhere, and the belled stalks of purple digitalis burst through blossoms of yellow euphorbia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
I gave Sarah clippings from a euphorbia that I’ve been growing since I was 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
“They’re very mean, and if you tell them they’re nice too much they’ll wither and die. This euphorbia from Africa”—he gestured at a twisting mass—“is full of poison.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
Big pots hold clipped evergreens, and the driveway is lined with rosemary, cistus and euphorbia.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
The moment was rather a tense one, as standing amid those weird ruins he bent his gaze long and eagerly upon the darkness of the straight euphorbia stems, round, regular as organ pipes.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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