wood spurge en · NOUN
Etymology
Named for its natural habitat, the undergrowth of woods and forests.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and the Caucasus, of species Euphorbia amygdaloides.
The Wood Spurge, seen so frequently during our country rambles, suggests by its spreading aspect a clever juggler balancing on his upturned chin a widely-branched series of delicate green saucers on fragile stems, which ramify below from a single rod.
1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 532:We filmed our wild wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides, on a big grassy verge alongside the road by the River Mole.
2013 February 28, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, Random House, →ISBN, page 40:The English wood Spurge, hath diverse tough woody brownish red branches, two foote high or more, bare or naked of leaves, for a space next to the roote, and afterwards set up to the toppes, with many narrow and long leaves, yet broader than those of the Sea Spurge, and nothing so large as the next, somewhat smooth in handling, and without any dentes about the edges, turning reddish in the spring, and more in the sommer time: […]
1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants : Or, An Herball of Large Extent: Containing Therein a More Ample and Exact History and Declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants ... Distributed Into Sundry Classes Or Tribes, for the More Easie Knowledge of the Many Herbes of One Nature and Property ..., page 186:
Hypernyms
angiosperm · rosid · euphorbia · eudicot · tracheophyte · malvid · plant · fabid · spurge
Translations (22)
fr euphorbe amandine (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · fr euphorbe des bois (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · cs pryšec mandloňovitý (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · fr euphorbe à feuilles d’amandier (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · de Mandelblättrige Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · pl wilczomlecz migdałolistny (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · ca lleteresa de bosc (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · sl mandljevolistni mleček (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · es titímalo macho (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · it euforbia delle faggete (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · nl amandelwolfsmelk (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · ru молочай миндалевидный (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · hsb mandlowa mlóčeń (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · fi mantelityräkki (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · sh bademasta mlječika (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · cy llaethlys y coed (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · dsb mandlowe wjelkowe mloko (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · ga lus Oilealla (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · es lechetrezna de bosque (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · hu erdei kutyatej (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · sk mliečnik mandľolistý (Euphorbia amygdaloides) · sk mliečnik mandľovitý (Euphorbia amygdaloides)