Definition for EU-PHOR'BI-A

EU-PHOR'BI-A, n. [Gr. ευφορβια, with a different signification.]

In botany, spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby herbaceous succulents, some of them armed with thorns. Encyc.

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