spurge family
noun
the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
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Such is the case with the natural order Euphorbiaceæ, or spurge family, to which the tallow-tree of China belongs.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 | Various
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