Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript).
Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species,mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milkyjuice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yieldpowerful emetic and cathartic products.
A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
Share your knowledge with the community
Browse our collection of 300,000+ community-written definitions
