Definitions for spurge

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Spelling: [spurj]
IPA: /spɜrdʒ/

Spurge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in spurge (egprsu).

Definitions for spurge

noun

  1. any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.

Origin of spurge

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French espurge, noun derivative of espurgier to cleanse Latin expurgāre. See ex-1, purge

Examples for spurge

Such is the case with the natural order Euphorbiaceæ, or spurge family, to which the tallow-tree of China belongs.

The flowers begin to greet you, the heliotrope, solanaceas, spurge and cacti all around.

This caterpillar is almost always found on the Cyprus-leafed spurge.

Bitter as spurge was that old story of hers now, and bitterer still the only moral lesson it now appeared to her to have.

Cleg pushed his way through the thickly matted copses of spurge laurel and wet-shot alder.

There are caterpillars which eat the leaves of the Euphorbia, or spurge, for instance.

The spurge is poisonous to man; but the caterpillar finds it a wholesome nourishment.

Well; do not open my eyes with pincers, nor compose for them a collyrium of spurge.

The spurge plants were long ago covered up by drifting sand, and the caterpillars were all destroyed.

Thus the spurge, that is noxious to man, is a most wholesome nourishment to the Caterpillar.

Word Value for spurge
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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