cypress spurge en · NOUN
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(uncountable) An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and an invasive species in North America, of species Euphorbia cyparissias.
These growers had been harvesting cypress spurge infested hay and selling it for animal food or as construction hay, perhaps assisting the spread of cypress spurge to new areas.
2002, “Cypress Spurge”, in Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States, page 205:Contact with the sap of leafy spurge and cypress spurge may result in skin blisters and inflamation^([sic]), and with animals the hair may fall.
1930 April, W. C. Muenscher, “Leafy Spurge and Related Weeds”, in Cornell Extension Bulletin, volume 192, page 10:The "American ipecac" (E. ipecacuanha), sometimes used as a substitute for the true Brazilian article, is an eye irritant. The milk of the flowering spurge and the cypress spurge have caused some damage along this line ;[…]
1919, “Diseases of the Eye”, in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, volume 1919, page 103:
Hypernyms
angiosperm · rosid · euphorbia · eudicot · tracheophyte · malvid · plant · fabid · spurge
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fi tarhatyräkki (Euphorbia cyparissias) · es euforbia ciprés (Euphorbia cyparissias) · gd lus a' chomain (Euphorbia cyparissias) · pl wilczomlecz sosnka (Euphorbia cyparissias) · cs pryšec chvojka (Euphorbia cyparissias) · cy llaethlys cypreswydd (Euphorbia cyparissias) · sv vårtörel (Euphorbia cyparissias) · fi kuusityräkki (Euphorbia cyparissias) · es mirabel lechero (Euphorbia cyparissias) · da cypresvortemælk (Euphorbia cyparissias) · ru молочай кипарисовый (Euphorbia cyparissias) · nl cipreswolfsmelk (Euphorbia cyparissias) · es esula menor (Euphorbia cyparissias) · fr euphorbe petit-cyprès (Euphorbia cyparissias) · hu farkas kutyatej (Euphorbia cyparissias) · uk молочай кипарисоподібний (Euphorbia cyparissias) · de Zypressen-Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia cyparissias) · sk mliečnik chvojkový (Euphorbia cyparissias) · ro laptele-câinelui (Euphorbia cyparissias) · it euforbia cipressina (Euphorbia cyparissias) · sl cipresasti mleček (Euphorbia cyparissias) · lt siauralapė karpažolė (Euphorbia cyparissias) · hsb sucha mlóčeń (Euphorbia cyparissias) · dsb cypresowe wjelkowe mloko (Euphorbia cyparissias)