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milk hedge en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Any of various Indian plants of the genus Euphorbia, especially E. tirucalli, having milky sap.
The mixture consists of powder of the milk hedge plant and kantaka plant, together with monkey excrement and the powdered root of the lanjalika plant.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 132:Natives of India suspend in their houses a few branches of milk-hedge to attact flies.
1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 132: